"Turkey Deporting Protestant Christians" by Uzay Bulut from "The Gatestone Institute"

Turkey Deporting Protestant Christians

by Uzay Bulut  •  July 5th 

• Dozens of Protestant Christian families, according to the Association of Protestant Churches, have been asked to leave Turkey or have not been allowed to enter the country -- all based on trumped-up charges, such as "being a threat to national security".
• "According to the court, Turkey's intelligence agency has a classified file on me that even our lawyer has been unable to review. According to this file, I am considered a threat to public order and security despite the fact that there is no legal complaint or court action against me." — Carlos Madrigal, spiritual leader, the Istanbul Protestant Church Foundation.
• "Are Turkish citizens who are Protestant Christians next?" — Association of Protestant Churches.

Dozens of Protestant Christian families, according to the Association of Protestant Churches, have been asked to leave Turkey or have not been allowed to enter the country -- all based on trumped-up charges, such as "being a threat to national security". (Image source: iStock)

An alarming practice targeting Protestant Christians in Turkey has been brought to the attention of the public by the country's Protestant community and its organizations.

"We would like to inform you," said a statement by the Association of Protestant Churches, "of a deportation practice targeting foreign national Protestants in our country especially in recent years, which we do not make much sense of and whose rationale we don't understand."

One of the recent victims is an American citizen, Joy Anna Subaşıgüller. She is the wife of Pastor Lütfü Kerem Subaşıgüller, a Turkish citizen in the active service in a Protestant Church in Ankara.

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