Istanbul, Nov 24, 2025 (AFP) - In Turkey, a patchwork of Christian communities

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2025-11-24

Turkey's Christian community, which hosts Pope Leo XIV this week, was a minority under the Ottoman Empire whose numbers have dwindled due to forced exiles and massacres. Today, it counts around 100,000 members spread across five denominations -- just a fraction of Turkey's population of 86 million, the vast majority of whom are Sunni Muslim. Most live in Istanbul or in western Turkey. National identity cards have not specified religion since 2......

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