Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 1997
The story of a Christian boy who converted to Islam in return for sweets, and the father’s response, which was jokingly to offer a Muslim boy a larger packet of sweets to become a Christian, is presented as a positive example of Muslim-Christian relations, since both boys’ fathers shared the joke.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2006
The article speaks of a landmark bill in Turkey giving its citizens the freedom to register whatever they want in the religion section of their identity cards.
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2005
The letter sent by Eric Edelman, former US Ambassador in Turkey, to the Turkish minister of religious affairs, Muhammad Eden, about Turkish anti conversion tactics, opened a hot debate about the protestant encroachment into the society and the dilemma of identity versus benefits of the European...