New Turkey quake kills one person, flattens more buildings
Osmaniye, Turkey Reuters An earthquake shook south-east Turkey on Monday, killing one person, injuring 110 and causing 29 buildings to collapse, Turkish authorities said, triggering frantic work to rescue several people believed trapped in rubble. The latest aftershock, with a magnitude of 5.6 and depth of 6.15 kilometres, hit three weeks after a massive quake […]
TURKEY: KOREAN CHRISTIAN MURDERED FOR MOBILE PHONE IN COUNTRY’S SOUTH-EAST
BARBARA G BAKER, of World Watch Monitor, looks at the murder of South Korean Christian Jin-Wook Kim in Turkey last month as church leaders call for a transparent investigation…
Andrew Brunson case increased “hate speech” against Turkey’s Protestants, says church report
World Watch Monitor Turkey’s high-profile criminal case against Protestant pastor Andrew Brunson has triggered a significant increase in public hate speech against the nation’s small Protestant community, creating what its church leaders last week called a “climate of insecurity” for its congregations and individual members. According to the Turkish Association of Protestant Churches’ annual human rights […]
Call for prayer as Turkey reviews sentences handed down over killing of three missionaries
Christians in Turkey have asked for people to pray as a court is reviewing sentences handed down last year over the killing of three Christian missionaries in eastern Turkey in April, 2007. German missionary Tilmann Geske and Turkish converts Necati Aydin and Uğur Yüksel were repeatedly stabbed and had their throats cut when they were […]
Five men sentenced to life in prison over murder of three Christians in Turkey nine years ago
Morning Star News After a nine year legal saga, a Turkish criminal court has sentenced five men to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007. The Malatya First Heavy Penal Court this week found Salih Gurler, Cuma Ozdemir, Abuzer Yildirim, Hamit Ceker and Emre Gunaydin guilty […]