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Some 45,000 Christians who fled Syria and Iraq are forced to hide their religious identity in the Turkish provinces of Yozgat, Aksaray and Çorum.

Turkey's Oriental Orthodox Christians, the country's largest Christian denomination, held mass on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning to celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus, which they observe on Jan. 6.

Armenians fled from Turkey to Syria 100 years ago, now they are fleeing again.

The Arab communities who helped Armenian refugees 100 years ago are now hosting different traumatised refugees.

The pope and the European Parliament recently urged the Turkish government to recognise the Armenian mass killings as "genocide", while others - including the US - have stopped short of using the term and called for a "full, frank" recognition of historical facts. But it is worth remembering that the people of the Arab Middle East have long recognised what the Armenians

Turkey has announced a decision to return its ambassador to the Vatican, Mehmet Paçacı, nearly 10 months after withdrawing him in protest at Pope Francis’ description of the killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as “the first genocide of the 20th century.”

Within the scope of the Anatolian Cultural Heritage Project, the Hrant Dink Foundation has listed the churches, synagogues, monasteries, schools, hospitals and cemeteries built by Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Jews. Based on the results of the activities carried out over the past two-and-a-half years, the Foundation has listed 10,000 structures, of which 4,600 are Armenian, 4,100 are Greek, 650 are Assyrian and 300 are Jewish. The Foundation has made an interactive map including all

The pro-government Bugün newspaper has run a front-page story in the paper's Tuesday edition targeting a spokesperson from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Selin Sayek-Böke, because of her religion.