ISTANBUL, Oct 9 — The queue outside Istanbul’s Our Lady of Vefa church stretched more than 200 metres, made up of Christians and Muslims chatting animatedly as they waited to...
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“But it’s the first time I’ve seen such a large crowd. Perhaps it’s because the economy is so bad,” grinned Sanli, 58. Women rub the keys they bought in church on the glass portraits to make wishes at the Our Lady of Vefa church in Istanbul, on October 1, 2024. — AFP picFor Aysun Zirhli, 49, there is nothing strange in a Muslim making a wish at a church.
There, a sign encourages visitors to wash their hands and face, but not their feet — a common Muslim practice. Although Christians were an important minority under the Ottoman Empire, today they represent an estimated 0.2 percent of Turkey’s 85-million-strong population — their numbers depleted by the Armenian genocide, massacres of Assyrians and Black Sea Pontic Greeks, population exchanges and pogroms.
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