Last autumn, I took my parents on a drive from Ganzantiep in the south of Turkey to Kars in the north east. It is a culturally rich area of the world with ruins of countless civilisations, from ...

Mardin's Tur Abdin region is home to the Mor Jacob Monastery, with an early history that is the stuff of legend: The building serves the oldest Syriac Christian community in Turkey. The southeastern ...

From a few miles out they looked like Mesopotamia's first skyscrapers, a cluster of silhouettes towering over blood-red farmland. It was only when the cassock-clad monk steered us up the final incline ...

Religious officials in Mardin's Tur Abdin area welcome the decision. Tur Abdin, a hilly region mostly occupied by Syriac Christians until the last century, is located in the Midyat district. The ...

Yemişli (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of desecrated tombs, with mortal remains and funerary objects scattered in the surrounding land. This is the scene faced by the Christians of Yemişli, a village in ...