Some Christians and their organisations are having their visas or travel clearances refused, often without a reason.

Turkey is no longer a comfortable country for Christians. More and more Christian leaders are expelled from there. The reason may be the government’s frustration about its relationship with the West. But pastor David Byle says there might be another reason.

Turkish Protestantism is young and growing fast. In the past 60 years, the number of Turkish Protestants in the country increased from practically zero to more than 10,000. For years, Dr James Bultema searched for an explanation. He found it in a correlation of several fertile conditions.

After a century, Turkey opened its first state-built church. At the same time, Christians still face restrictions in the officially secular state.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry is upset. In the Netherlands, the Quran was torn apart in public. To show his dissatisfaction, he summoned the Dutch deputy ambassador to his office.