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Israel unleashed an attack in the northern Gaza Strip on October 12, 2023 in Gaza City, Gaza. / Credit: Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images) CNA Staff, Oct 13, 2023 / 11:32 am (CNA). The Israeli government on Friday urged civilians to evacua...

Turkey Needs to Change its Policy and Rhetoric Toward Religious Minorities | Opinion Newsweek 4/29/2021 Aykan Erdemir and Nadine Maenza © Adem ALTAN / AFP/Getty President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to give a press conference after the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, on September 21, 2020. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stunned his countrys Christians and Jews by publicly using the slur "gavur" (infidel), a pejorative desig...

A Turkish court has sentenced Syrian Orthodox monk to 25 months in prison on terrorism charges after he gave a piece of bread to two people who had turned up at the gates of his monastery. The Mardin Criminal Court found Syrian Orthodox monk Sefer Bileçen guilty of complicity with terrorist organizations and activities as the people he helped were members of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) that the Ankara government classifies as a terrorist organization. The monk is custodian of the old Syria...