While all eyes are glued on Israel, and secondarily on Western free societies, in order to find reasons (or to fabricate reasons) to condemn and malign them, Islamic countries are given a bye to abuse disbelievers in the name of Islam. Even Westerners themselves apply the same unjust measure.
As Christians are hunted in Malatya province in Turkey, the sentiment that justifies it is simple and direct: “There are missionaries in Malatya. This is not good for the homeland.”
In 2022, International Christian Concern reported about a group of ultranationalists targeting Christians in Malatya Province, but the targeting, as it turns out, had much deeper, state roots.
The targeting and murder of Christians have been ongoing in Turkey: court proceedings involving murders in 2007 “revealed that they were orchestrated by the National Strategies and Operations Department of Turkey.” The latter “played a pivotal role in orchestrating a nationwide campaign against Christians, deliberately stoking fears that Christians were attempting to take over Turkey through missionary work.”
In 2019, a Christian evangelist stated the day after another evangelist was stabbed to death:
“We always get threats. A brother prophesied a few days ago that they (the government) are going to kick out these foreigners, and probably kill a few Turkish brothers. They are going to cause chaos. They know that I am trying to spread the Gospel, so they may target me too. This may be a sign.”
In 2021, Newsweek published an article entitled “Turkey’s Christians Face Increasingly Dangerous Persecution“; the National Catholic Register published an exposé in May 2024 entitled Turkey’s Dwindling Christians: A 60-Year Legacy of Expulsion and Denial.
“Turkish intelligence recruited far-right figure to assassinate Christian pastors in Turkey,” by Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor, January 15, 2025:
Turkish authorities have abandoned an investigation into an alleged plot involving the recruitment of an ultranationalist Turkish figure by elements in the country’s intelligence services.
The individual was hired as an assassin to target members of a small Protestant network in the southeastern province of Malatya. The decision has raised concerns of political interference, with critics suggesting that the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which exerts significant control over the judiciary, may have influenced the outcome.
The plot unraveled when the hired assassin had a change of heart and decided to expose the scheme, revealing that he had been directed to execute the murders under the supervision of Turkish intelligence officers. The intricate details of the plan were outlined in a criminal complaint filed on September 5, 2022 with the public prosecutor’s office by Vedat Serin, the pastor and representative of the Association of Kurtuluş (Salvation) Churches Foundation in Malatya.
According to the complaint, Tolgahan Aban, a far-right figure, approached Serin in August 2022 to reveal details of the plot. Aban claimed that in 2015 notorious members of army intelligence had visited his office and instructed him to assassinate Christian missionaries….
Billy says
Excellent observations by this writer! Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the 50+ Islamic Countries are Muslim Terrorist States against ALL Non-Muslims. Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Basically, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. Thus, the Truth about Islam and its terrorism, discrimination, and violence must be taught and exposed to the general public. There is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and declared to be a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims.
Allah in Islam demands SURRENDER which means ‘to Surrender, whether voluntarily or not, by becoming a Muslim’ while Submission, ‘to Submit’, is a voluntary act to follow the authority or control of another. Allah in Quran 49:14 says, “’The Bedouins said, ‘We believed.’ Say,’You did not believe. But say, ‘We surrender (became Muslim as a result of fear).’ And the faith has not entered your hearts. And if you obey Allah and his messenger, he will not decrease anything from your works. Surely Allah is forgiving, merciful.’”
Islam promotes a terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
somehistory says
Kudos for the man with the ‘change of heart.’
Turkey is a terror state….state-sponsoring terror.
The ‘government’ of the snake er do a wan (sic) is nothing more than a terrorist organization….just like hamas, hezbollah, al queda, boko haram, al shabab….but with the power of a state government.
A twin of iran, a triplet of afganistan and with privileges of belonging to NATO
Hoi Polloi says
Of course Turkey targets Christians and of course Western governments and Francis and his counterparts say nothing. They’re too busy importing islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The reason that the Muslims authorities of the Turkish government had stopped in investigation into the the jihadists scheme to murder the Christian members of a small Protestant group is because those Turkish authorities don’t care for Christians at all. They might even agree with those Muslim terrorists.
Furthermore, there are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians.
Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
Gurek says
What’s happening in Turkey for non-Muslim minorities is very sad. But the victims of islamists and Turkish ultranationalists include everyone who don’t submit them. Turkey was not a such aggressive country before Erdogan. He destroyed secularism stage by stage and soon it won’t have a place in the constitution. All of these are happening with the complicity of the Western governments. They have abandoned Turkey to fascist dictators like Erdogan. They should be ashamed of their fake democracies.
GE says
One of my great grandfathers was murdered in Malatya by the Turks. They won’t stop until every Christian in the country is dead.