In general, the combination of rising religious nationalism and a growing emphasis on Islamic values by the government is intensifying the pressure on non-believers in Turkey.
Turkey claims that Church attacks have declined. –Yes, but that is because there are less and less Christians in Turkey.
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne provides protection and freedom of worship for the remaining non-Muslim communities, but that this protection and freedom of worship has often been sharply curtailed, not infrequently through action against sacred Christian sites.
The report illustrates that the highest number of attacks on Greek Orthodox and other Orthodox churches occurred in the Marmara region of Istanbul, which is associated with the largest concentration of non-Muslim populations.—The Greek Reporter