[ April 19, 2024 ]
Turkey, under the leadershipi of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has seized roughly 50 churches and monasteries and declared them state properties.
The Islamization of Turkey continues, as the country moves more and more into the camp of anti-Christian.
Outreach to Muslims? At your peril, it seems.
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PJ Media has the story (thanks to Jihad Watch):
“The Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has seized control of at least 50 Syriac churches, monasteries, and cemeteries in Mardin province, report media sources from Turkey.”
Check out these tweets:
Diyanet wins the church lottery from Mardin https://t.co/TEDbAgjXrz
— AGOS / ԱԿՕՍ (@AGOSgazetesi) June 23, 2017
And this one:
https://twitter.com/zaliin/status/878552393167888385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fhomeland-security%2F2017%2F06%2F27%2Ferdogan-seizes-50-syriac-churches-and-monasteries-declares-them-turkish-state-property%2F
And then Agos, the local newspaper for Turkey, reports this:
“After Mardin became a Metropolitan Municipality, its villages were officially turned into neighbourhoods as per the law and attached to the provincial administration. Following the legislative amendment introduced in late 2012, the Governorate of Mardin established a liquidation committee. The Liquidation Committee started to redistribute in the city, the property of institutions whose legal entity had expired. The transfer and liquidation procedures are still ongoing.
“In 2016, the Transfer, Liquidation and Redistribution Committee of Mardin Governorate transferred to primarily the Treasury as well as other relevant public institutions numerous churches, monasteries, cemeteries and other assets of the Syriac community in the districts of Mardin. The Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation appealed to the decision yet the liquidation committee rejected their appeal last May. The churches, monasteries and cemeteries whose ownerships were given to the Treasury were then transferred to the Diyanet.
“Inquiries of the Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation revealed that dozens of churches and monasteries had been transferred to the Treasury first and then allocated to the Diyanet. And the cemeteries have been transferred to the Metropolitan Municipality of Mardin. The maintenance of some of the churches and monasteries are currently being provided by the Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation and they are opened to worship on certain days. Similarly, the cemeteries are still actively used by the Syriac community who visits them and performs burial procedures. The Syriacs have appealed to the Court for the cancellation of the decision.
“Cancellation cases:
“‘We started to file lawsuits and in the meantime our enquiries continued” said Kuryakos Ergün, the Chairman of Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation. Ergün said they would appeal to the court for the cancellation of nearly 30 title deed registries.
“Speaking to Agos, Ergün made the following remarks:
“‘For years, minority foundations could not acquire property in Turkey. Then legislative amendments were introduced in 2002 upon which we engaged in a number of initiatives. We were able to have some of the title deeds registered in the name of our foundation. And for others, the legal process was ongoing. It was not possible for us to follow-up all the title deeds. In the meantime cadastral works were carried out as well. At the cadastral offices, they did not show any sensitivity about the legislative amendment enabling the acquisition of property by minority foundations. In the face of the situation, we are filing lawsuits to the extent possible. In places where we couldn’t follow up the situation, some monasteries and other property were given to the legal entity of the Village.
“‘After Mardin became a Metropolitan municipality the governorate established a liquidation committee. The liquidation procedures began and many places were redistributed. We were expecting them to be transferred to the municipality however they transferred the assets to the Treasury instead. The Metropolitan Municipality of Mardin took the decision to Court. However we assume that the cases were dropped after a trustee was appointed.
We have also filed appeals to the Commission numerous times and taken witnesses however they told us that legally it was not possible to give it to us and that it’s transfer procedures to the Treasury had been completed. On the other hand the Treasury gave the church monastery and the cemetery to the use of Diyanet. Here we are talking about around 50 churches and monasteries. We are still working on identifying the properties transferred. We will file an application to the directorate General of Foundations and will also file a court case. So far we have filed court cases for around 20 title deeds and we will do the same for around 30 more.'”
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49 Comments
6 years ago
went to Turkey over 30 years ago it was a s******* back then and it’s turning into an even bigger s******* now
6 years ago
Reply to
tn_tea _ partyer_420
Its becoming bigger islamic hellhole every year .
And did you know Turkey allows harvesting of organs from refugees http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
And that includes killing children ! And even UN was aware of it for over 3 years but keeps blaming syrian govt !
6 years ago
Reply to
tn_tea _ partyer_420
It’s amazing that many westerners are travelling to Turkey and get impressed by the natural beauty as well as some handsome men they encounter there.Many Russian and European as well as American women end up marrying Turks there,and settle there happily.Just Google western women marrying Turkish men.Almost 10000 German Turks staged a march expressing solidarity with Erdogan recently.Could these two prove detrimental to the rest of the world? Only time will tell.
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6 years ago
Some good scenes of Turkish hospitals, etc., in the movie “Lawrence of Arabia”.
6 years ago
Turkey is going from a secular democracy to a full blown Islamist state
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
And YET, Neither the USA or NATO question their eligibility to REMAIN IN NATO??? NATO IS WORTHLESS WHEN IT CANNOT Determine WHICH MEMBERS ARE MEETING THEIR COMMITMENTS o maintaining THEIR OBLIGATIONS!!!
6 years ago
On April 24, 1915 the Muslim Turks commenced the genocide of 1.5 million Armenian , Assyrian, and Greek Christians.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
And under everyone’s favorite “moderate”, “secular” muslum ape Ataturk, 200,000 Greeks (mostly Christians) were slaughtered.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Stop calling them “Armenians”, they were all Christians. They tortured them, robbed them, starved them to death because THEY WERE Christians. And that’s the reason they did that and not because of their nationality.
The US is such CORRUPT PROSTITUTE, if so much as a hair was touched of a Muziz scum, the sky would have fallen in. ….
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Amin al-Husseini then was as Muhammad-cult Ottoman-empire General in Smyrna, now Izmir, Turkey in the 1. world war active in the mass-murder of non-members of the Muhammad-cult, then mass-murdered in Israel & Iraq, then with Hitler & he led the biggest (26.000 soldiers) Nazi SS divisions, the Handschar SS divisions.
He was the uncle of Yassir Arafat al-Husseini who described him as ‘our hero’.
This information is the truth & a foundation & we must eradicate the tyranny that is build on a foundation of lies hiding that information.
#BoycottIslam #Shariafreeworld
#Ban Islam, save lives worldwide & free the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, the Biafra-leader, the Leavenworth 10, Israeli soldier Azaria, Salim Masih & so on.
6 years ago
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our bayonets and Muslims our soldiers. – leader of Turkey, Erdogan.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Instead of aiming our nukes on Moscow we should aim them at Istanbul !!
6 years ago
Filthy Muslim rats, they have no place in NATO. Neither do their BFF Germany. Trump is right. NATO is obsolete.
6 years ago
Reply to
wilypagan
The bloodiest friendly fire incident in the Korean War happened when Turks slaughtered retreating ROK’s, but the last laugh was on the Turks because the PRC didn’t bat an eye when they slaughtered every last one of them.
6 years ago
Reply to
wilypagan
Horrible?
What is best in life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
When the Turks got involved in WWI they sent 93,000 soldiers into the mountains and elsewhere against the Russians and only about 18,000 ever returned, killed in combat, froze to death or died of disease, so notions of Turk invincibility is for the sickly mind of Recep Erdogan. However, their utter brutality against unarmed Armenian women and children fills any decent human being with disgust and contempt for such vermin.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Assyrian Christians were also slaughtered/enslaved by Turkish muslums and their Kurdish brethren.
6 years ago
Why are they still in NATO? Fu**ing savages! Why aren’t we doing the same with mosques? Our tank crews need targets for training purposes…
6 years ago
Turks have been the storm troopers of Islam and the oppressors, enslavers, kidnappers and killers of Christians for a thousand years. The Ataturk aberration has come and gone. Neo-Ottoman wanna-be Sultan Er-DOG-an is the 21st century manifestation of the true Turk. And he has massive public support. Turkey is an ENEMY, not a friend.
6 years ago
Well, leaders of Christianity what will you do? First Christians are murdered, now the evidence of them ever being in turkey is being destroyed. What is your reply? That this is not the real islam?
6 years ago
It has long been true that churches and synagogues in Turkey (spit) required special permission to merely repair their buildings — unlike any f’ing mosque. Because according to the holey insanity of islum non-muslims shouldn’t be allowed to repair their churches or synagogues at all, much less build new ones.
6 years ago
Turkey, can never be trusted. Next they will be chanting death to America.
6 years ago
Reply to
Laura Mullen
79% of their people already hate the U.S.:
http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/23163910/PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-01-0.png
6 years ago
Reply to
Laura Mullen
They came here a couple of months ago, and Turkey’s president’s body guards beat up U.S. citizens. ON U.S. SOIL!
6 years ago
Free Constantinople from the Turks!
6 years ago
B’lack obama must be admiring the man in jealous RAGE!
6 years ago
If you think that suspicious “coup” attempt last summer, partly blamed on a US cleric in PA, was anything other than a cheap political ruse to justify this sort of abuse of power then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you. Remember how his protection detail goons attacked protesters in DC on his recent state visit and are now under indictment for it?
6 years ago
This miscreant cretin BARES WATCHING…CLOSELY! (Matt. 7: 15 – 20)!!!
6 years ago
We need to kick Turkey out of NATO and bring Israel in and remove all our troops and weaponry from their country.
6 years ago
Ah! obamas very good friend and most trusted ally.
6 years ago
Obama’s buddy. Explains it all.
6 years ago
It keeps getting more dangerous for Middle Eastern Christians. We have seen 1,400 years of persecution and it continues. The West is too busy allowing themselves to get buried alive, but they won’t wake up until it’s too late.
6 years ago
No surprise, at all, to me. This Muslim dictator does only what his master (Satan) compels him to do. Jesus stated it plainly. “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. But I have come that you might have life more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
6 years ago
Be careful that anyone Obama hugs and kisses is bad or evil.
6 years ago
So here we go again, the Armenian, Greek and Assyrians genocide-Turkey behaving true to Islam’s savagery form. I truly hope that Donald Trump soon gets the picture re Erdogan and Turkey, ignores his Islam-ignorant National Security Advisor, McMaster, and ignores Condoleeza Rice’s view about Turkey being “a good ally”. With such a treacherous ally who needs enemies?
6 years ago
Obama made relations with Cuba so that Turkey could construct mosques there and then throughout the area till the world is encircled with mosques.
The answer to the scourge of islam is found in the koran. We only have to change the words Kafir,, Unbeliever, infidel, Jew, and Christian to ‘muslim’ and do unto them as they wish to do unto us!
“Islam is the most dangerous thing that the world has ever faced, Stalin and Hitler were insignificant compared to the engulfing and mendacious tentacles of Islam”
6 years ago
Erdogan is picking up things where they were left off in 1915.
6 years ago
I saw Erdogan turning ancient monasteries into mosques and trying to change Saint Sofia cathedral, the oldest high-standing Christian church in the world (that draws many tourists to Istanbul) into a mosque as well. I taught English in a Turkish university, learned its culture & history, snd married an Armenian/Turk. Erdogan contradicts Ataturk’s saving of Ssint Sofia as a museum, as well as his secular democracy. Read my first-hand account, with photos, video links, and interviews in “I Protested for Freedom with Turks”:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U79H5LQ
6 years ago
The muslamists like to stick their fingers in our face like they are imparting some whispering guidance of truth. The pope is too busy defending pedophiles in the church to say anything.
