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10.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:27 am

 

Quoting geniuda

WE Tami...WE! {#lang_emotions_super_cool}

 

Oh I got it now, I just forgot the "fact" that 99.99999% of the Turks are Muslims for a moment.{#lang_emotions_lol}

11.       justinetime
1018 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:29 am

 

Quoting tamikidakika

Oh I got it now, I just forgot the "fact" that 99.99999% of the Turks are Muslims for a moment.{#lang_emotions_lol}

 

i never heard of a Turkish Christian before... are there any? are there turkish people who openly say they are christians?

12.       geniuda
1070 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:30 am

 

Quoting tamikidakika

Oh I got it now, I just forgot the "fact" that 99.99999% of the Turks are Muslims for a moment.{#lang_emotions_lol}

 

you got it {#lang_emotions_super_cool} 

13.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:31 am

 

Quoting justinetime

i never heard of a Turkish Christian before... are there any? are there turkish people who openly say they are christians?

 

most of my friends when i was kid were Assyrian Christians.

14.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:33 am

 

Quoting justinetime

i never heard of a Turkish Christian before... are there any? are there turkish people who openly say they are christians?

 

There aren`t any Christians who are ethnically Turks inside Turkey but there are Gagauz Turks living in Moldovia who are Christians.

 

Most of the Christians in Turkey are Syrians and Arabs living in the southe east around Hatay and Mardin.

15.       justinetime
1018 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:34 am

 

Quoting tamikidakika

most of my friends when i was kid were Assyrian Christians.

 

but how about Turks?

16.       Deli_kizin
6376 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:35 am

 

Quoting justinetime

i never heard of a Turkish Christian before... are there any? are there turkish people who openly say they are christians?

 

 Yes there are. But I think there are more Turkish Christians who do not say it openly.. I know of the murders on Christian Turks in Malatya. One of the reasons I wont forget it is because the name of the daughter of the murdered man was my own name, Esther.

 

As for Turkish people who openly say it: I twice went to a church in Ýzmir. I think it was called the ´light church, church of light, smt like that´. It had an international sphere. I went there with a Brazilian catholic family of mine who also lives in Ýzmir. They asked me and Kadir to come for the Eastern and Christmas celebration. There were mainly foreigners in the church who happened to live in Ýzmir (germans, british, brazilian etc), but also some from the east (I spoke to a few Iranians, who said the moved to Ýzmir because of their religion, it was safer to practice it openly there than in their own country), but also some Turks! Some of them said they are open about it. But not all of them are: a week later we ran into a Christian Turkish couple in a shopping mall. They were with friends and immediately told us in English, so that their friends would not udnerstand,  not to mention the fact we had met them in church..

17.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:35 am

 

Quoting justinetime

but how about Turks?

{#lang_emotions_unsure}

 

They were Turkish citizens! "Assyrian" only refers to their ethnicities.

 

18.       justinetime
1018 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:35 am

 

Quoting tamikidakika

There aren`t any Christians who are ethnically Turks inside Turkey but there are Gagauz Turks living in Moldovia who are Christians.

 

Most of the Christians in Turkey are Syrians and Arabs living in the southe east around Hatay and Mardin.

 

what are Gagauz Turks... if you don´t mind me asking...

19.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:37 am

 

Quoting justinetime

what are Gagauz Turks... if you don´t mind me asking...

 

A Turkic tribe living in the Balkans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauzia

 

 

There are also Karaim Turks living in Lituhania. They are Jewish.

20.       Deli_kizin
6376 posts
 08 Dec 2008 Mon 01:37 am

 

Quoting tamikidakika

{#lang_emotions_unsure}

 

They were Turkish citizens!

 

 There are also ´ethnically´ Turks who are christian. I hate the word ´ethnically´, but I just wanted to stress that its not only the ones who are citizens of Turkey, but also the ones who are ´ethnically´ Turk. Most of the ones I have come across were converts, who grew up in a Muslim family, or who came from a family who was converted 1 or more generations ago.

 

but I do think most of the Christians in Turkey are from ´foreign´ origine, as you said Syrians for example. But its not true that there arent any ethnically Turk christians.

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