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How many Christians were killed in Turkey?
During what Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi describe as the ‘thirty-year genocide’, some 4 million Christians were either killed or forcibly removed from Turkey and the adjacent territories of eastern Thrace, Urmia and the southern Caucasus.
What religion did the Turks convert to?
It was them who, alongside the local Greek and Armenian Christians, formed the population of the Anatolian beyliks, the Seljukid realm of Rúm, and later Ottoman Anatolia. For the Turks, there were definite political and economic advantages in converting to Islam.
How did the Turks affect Islam?
When the Seljuk Turks moved in, they brought the Islamic religion, as well as Persian culture, which the Turks had largely adopted after becoming part of the Muslim Empire. They quickly became one of the most powerful Muslim empires in the region and were tied to other Muslim Empires like the Fatimids through religion.
Can Muslims convert to Christianity in Egypt?
Egyptian law, however, does not allow Muslims to convert to any other religion. The first case of a Muslim wishing to convert to Christianity in the official papers went to court in 2007, paving the way for a number of cases that would follow suit in the following years. However, all were rejected.
How did Turks become Orthodox Christians?
First of all; Orthodox Christianity is actually not very far away for Turks. Actually Turks (Oghuzs, Kypchaks, Pechenegs and other various Turkic groups) were converted to Orthodox Christianity at the times of Eastern Roman Empire and used by them as quality mercenaries because of their horsemanship skills.
What is the status of Christianity in Turkey?
Christianity in Turkey has had a long history dating back to the 1st-century AD. In modern times the percentage of Christians in Turkey has declined from 20-25 percent in 1914 to 3-5.5 percent in 1927, to 0.3-0.4\% today roughly translating to 200,000-320,000 devotees.
What happened to the Assyrian Christians in Turkey?
In the ancient Christian cities of Nisibin and Cizre, and elsewhere, Muslim militias and civilians systematically executed men in the Assyrian Christian community and raped or abducted women and children. The final wave of anti-Christian violence unfolded in the confusion of the post-war period in Turkey.
Is there a Turkish Protestant community in Turkey?
There is ethnic Turkish Protestant Christian community in Turkey which number about 7,000-8,000 adherents most of them came from Muslim Turkish background.