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Please add Hindu Terrorism, Hindutva, and Hindu nationalism in the "See also" section of the article. These are all Hindu fundamentalist ideologies that are noted for anti-Christian and terror activities, as well as persecution of Christians and vandalism of churches. 2409:40E0:18:BA8C:8895:8451:F774:5D99 (talk) 12:43, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 04:07, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

0AD to Middle Ages?

This time period covers entirely persecution by Muslims in Muslim regions. I was hoping to find information on persecution of Christians by the early catholic church. 2603:8080:2B00:11D4:9A18:F15F:7285:E80A (talk) 18:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Persecution of Christians in Turkey after 1923 should be added

The Republic of Turkey was established in 1923, after the vast majority of Christian inhabitants of Anatolia had been expelled or massacred in the late Ottoman period ([[Armenian genocide]], [[Greek genocide]]). However, there still remained sizeable Greek and Armenian minorities in Istanbul. Beginning in the 1940s, the Turkish government instituted repressive policies forcing many Greeks to emigrate. Examples are the [[Labour battalion (Turkey)|labour battalions]] drafted among non-Muslims during World War II, as well as the Fortune Tax ([[Varlık Vergisi]]) levied mostly on non-Muslims during the same period. These resulted in financial ruination and death for many Greeks. The exodus was given greater impetus with the [[Istanbul Pogrom]] of September 1955 and the [[Expulsion of Greeks from Istanbul|expulsion of Istanbul Greeks]] which led to thousands of Greeks fleeing the city, eventually reducing the Greek population from 200,000 in 1924 to about 7,000 by 1978 and to about 2,500 by 2006.

Adding multiple reliable sources ...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250195978_The_Istanbul_Pogrom_of_6-7_September_1955_in_the_Light_of_International_Law

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/231239/pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45294234

Betoota44 (talk) 18:28, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well first off, much of these seem to be about non-Muslims, not just Christians, thus is not persecution of Christians. Secondly, not all Greeks are Christian, so is it persecution of Greeks or Christians? Slatersteven (talk) 18:35, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The aim was to eliminate non-Muslims from modern Turkey. The vast majority of these non-Muslims were Christian with a smaller number of Jews. Likewise, the vast majority of Greeks were Christian.

The persecution of Christian minorities was not something new that begin in the 1940s, it was a continuation of the persecutions in the late Ottoman period eg, Armenian genocide (itself a reaction to the persecution of Muslims in newly independent Balkan states).

In Turkey's case, if Greeks and Armenians converted to Islam they were allowed to stay in Turkey and not pay the Varlik Vergisi tax. This was not persecution based on a particular ethnicity but on religion. Betoota44 (talk) 19:21, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So no it was not targeted at Christian., it was persecution of non-Muslims. I oppose this addition, and will now leave as this is already going round in circles. Slatersteven (talk) 10:31, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]