Hate crimes directed at Christians continued in 2012 as well as physical attacks carried out against Protestants and their churches, according to a 2012 Human Rights Violations Report from the Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey
, Hurriyet Daily News reports on Wednesday.
The report, aired yesterday by the association’s Committee for Religious Freedom and Legal Affairs, listed some 10 hate crime incidents that occurred in Turkey.
The report also read that the ability for Protestants to establish and continue to use places of worship remained a problem.
“Even though there were some gains this year regarding the establishment of associations and congregations gaining official legal status, a complete solution is still lacking. Along with some positive developments, there were still problems with part of the compulsory Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge classes (RCMK) in schools. Neither was there movement forward in 2012 in the area of protecting the rights of Christians to train their own religious workers,” the report reads.
