Fethiye is a small town of 70,000 people in a land which has more mosques than any other nation and is 99.9% Muslim.
Children are taught that ‘to be a Turk is to be a Muslim’ and nationality and religion seem inseparable. There are approximately 5,000 Protestant Christians in Turkey and the church is growing, albeit slowly.
Front line
It seems that Turkey is rapidly becoming the ‘front line’ for Christianity in the region, as Iran, Iraq and Syria, its neighbours along the eastern borders, fall to extremist Islamic groups and Turkey has a massive influx of refugees fleeing war-torn areas.
