All articles in category Turkey
By Ann Winch
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September 2009
Turkey
Missionary Spotlight – A great work in retirement
A great work in retirement While serving Christ as missionaries with European Missionary Fellowship (EMF) in Turkey, in spring 1975, David and I were privileged to be the hosts to a retired Greek pastor from Piraeus, Athens. Stavros Delianides had been invited to preach to the few remaining Greek Protestants in Istanbul…
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June 2007
Turkey
Martyrs for Christ
Martyrs for Christ Three evangelical Christians have been murdered in Malatya, eastern Turkey, as they met for Bible study at the offices of a small Christian publishing company. The victims, a German missionary and two Turkish converts, were tortured before being killed. Ten Muslim religious students, all aged 19 or 20, have been arrested.…
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By Ann Winch
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April 2007
Turkey
Missionary Spotlight – Gospel seed in southeast Turkey
We arrived in the early 1970s in Aintep (or Gaziantep) – Turkey’s eighth largest commercial city and a centre for the cotton industry. It was not long before we experienced its spiritual darkness. In Istanbul, the minority Christian population had substantially influenced the culture, so here it was a shock to see superstitious and…
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By Ann Winch
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April 2007
Turkey
Missionary Spotlight – Gospel seed in southeast Turkey
We arrived in the early 1970s in Aintep (or Gaziantep) – Turkey’s eighth largest commercial city and a centre for the cotton industry. It was not long before we experienced its spiritual darkness. In Istanbul, the minority Christian population had substantially influenced the culture, so here it was a shock to see superstitious and…
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By Ann Winch
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November 2005
Turkey
Missionary Spotlight – A storm in Turkey
Beside one of the beautiful Bosphorus bays in Istanbul lies the Bebek Park, where one can sit and watch large ships passing to and from the Black Sea. In the spring, steep wooded hills are ablaze with the red blossom of ‘Judas’ trees — which symbolise to Armenians the blood of the traitor Judas.…
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By Ann Winch
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March 2004
Turkey
Missionary Spotlight – Women of Turkey
Millions of Turkey’s city-dwellers live in apartments. The doorman or kapiciis the caretaker of an apartment block, and every block employs one. He and his family usually live rent-free in a dark basement apartment, close to the central-heating boiler room. His wife is responsible for cleaning the staircases and getting up early…
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By Ann Winch
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October 2003
Turkey
Missionary Spotlight – Turkish memories
Life was never boring when my husband David and I were living in Turkey. Difficult, eventful, yes — but never boring! Waiting on the railway platform at Izmir, returning from my weekly visit supporting expatriate children being home-schooled, a friendly village woman chatted to me about the impossibility of her buying local…
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By Trinitarian Bible Society
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October 2003
Turkey
Missionary Spotlight – Scriptures for Turkey, Armenia and Lithuania
Turkey, Armenia and Lithuania are three countries which today seem to have very little in common. However, as with so many parts of the world, these places are in dire need of sound and accurate editions of the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make their inhabitants ‘wise unto salvation’ (2 Timothy 3:15). The…
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By David Winch
Article
January 2002
Turkey
A Bible for modern Turkey
The date is 6 October 2001 and there is great rejoicing in a church in Istanbul. One lady puts it like this: ‘I have cried a lot today. Today the Bible is in my hands’. She expresses the feeling of the other Turkish believers when she says, ‘We are very happy … more than…
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By Ann Winch
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January 1999
Articles > World Mission > Asia > Western Asia > Turkey
Missionary spotlight: Istanbul
The ancient capital of the eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople, occupied a comparatively small area of land, protected on three sides by water. In this area, on the European side of the Bosphorus, are Istanbul’s covered market and university. In 1966, when we first lived in Istanbul (no longer a capital city), the population was…
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December 1998
Articles > World Mission > Asia > Western Asia > Turkey
A summer holiday- with a difference
One summer’s morning, in the early hours, a small group of us arrived, bleary-eyed and a little bewildered, at the airport in Turkey. Our Bible studies during our stay in Turkey were to be in the book of Esther, when, morning by morning, we were reminded of God’s hand of providence in the lives…
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