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 ...

Imagine a landscape of narrow country roads hemmed in by dry stone walls. Imagine village after honey-colored village, each with its church tower punctuating the skyline. Imagine golden-stoned houses ...

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 ...

Arameans were among the first followers of Christ and still today speak the language used by Jesus of Nazareth. In their home territory, Tur Abdin in southern Turkey, they have been persecuted for ...