Turkey gave a Christmas present to its Christian citizens. On Christmas Eve, Turkey Converts Historic Edrine Church in Thrace into Mosque.

Turkey converts yet another historic church into a mosque. This time in the town of Enez of Adrianopolis/EdirneEdirne is in eastern Thrace, where the Greek genocide commenced in 1913 prior to the First World War.

The information was shared on microblogging platform, Twitter by a verified user named Prof. Dr. Ali Erbas, who goes by the username @DIBAliErbas. The link to the tweet is given below: https://twitter.com/DIBAliErbas/status/1474373312310558730?t=KdukxJETdj_yRelCHFyctQ&s=19

This news was also shared by another Twitter user named, MeghUpdates.

Screengrab of the tweet.

The magnificent church that inspired Ottomans to build the Blue Mosque. However, till Selimiye mosque in Edrine, Turk engineers could not replicate it. However, this isn’t the first time the current regime under Erdogan has done it, as last year too, it was Haga Sofia Church, which was converted into a mosque.

“The Turks are the enemies of all Christians. The servants of the Devil, who are trying to topple the Kingdom of Christ,” Martin Luther had said it once. Another day, another previously converted Byzantine church proudly reopened as a mosque. He’s glad it “finally met its congregation again.” Could one be more tone deaf and blind to irony on this scale?

Between 1894 and 1924, the number of Christians in Asia Minor fell from some 3-4 million to just tens of thousands—from 20% of the area’s population to under 2%. Turkey has long attributed this decline to wars and the general chaos of the period, which claimed many Muslim lives as well. But the descendants of Turkey’s Christians, many of them dispersed around the world since the 1920s, maintain that the Turks murdered about half of their forebears and expelled the rest, was the comment of WSJ article published on May 18, 2019.

The German people and government have long acknowledged the genocidal horrors of the Third Reich, made financial reparations, expressed profound remorse and worked to abjure racism. But every Turkish government since 1924—together with most of the Turkish people—has continued to deny the painful history.

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