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Many Turks Become Christians
United Press International
Istanbul, Jan. 23--(UPI) Some 35,000 Turks converted from Islam to Christianity last year,with most joining evangelical congregations the newspaper, "Milliet," reports. If true, this would amount to a mass movement, considering Christians make up only 0.2 percent of Turkey's 68 million population. "This is news to me," said the Rev. Holger Nollmann, the German Protestant pastor in Istanbul.
However, Ihsan Ozbek, president of the Council of Independent Protestant congregations, said more and more Turks were turning toward Christianity. "However, given the Islamic environment in which we live, most Turks coming to our congregations do not wish to make waves."
The German protestant news service Idea reported most converts are descendants of Orthodox Christians who ostensibly became Muslims to avoid being killed in Turkey's 1914-22 genocide of its Armenian minority.
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At some point a great many people, born into Islam, may come to realize that they are simply the descendants of people who were forced, by a small invading army of Muslim Arabs, either to convert at once, or to endure the status of dhimmi which, punctuated as it was by the threat of massacre (e.g. the Jihad of 1915-1916 against Armenians, and to a lesser extent against Syrian Orthodoxs -- in which not only Turks, but Kurds and Arabs participated), and led to a series of conversions over the centuries.
Islam as a belief-system has nowhere left a populace better governed, more prosperous, more intellectually alive; its effects have been the reverse, as the most acute historians and commentators -- from Tocqueville and Renan, to Jacques Ellul and Ibn Warraq -- have testified.