Pray for Turkey

• Full Name: Republic of Turkey
• Government Type: Republican parliamentary democracy
• Leader(s): Abdullah Gul (president); Recep Tayyip Erdogan (prime minister)
• Population: 78,785,548 (2011 est.)
• People Groups: 49
• Religions:
• Islam> 99.8% (78,627,977)
• Other (including Christianity, Judaism, and Non-religious)> 0.2% (157,571)
• Average Annual Income (GNI per capita): $8,720 (USD)
• Population Below Poverty Line: 17.11% (13,480,207)
• Some Prayer Requests:
• ‘Turkey remains the largest unreached nation in the world. Few of the 66 million Muslims have ever heard the gospel and only 15 of Turkey’s 80 provinces have a Christian church.’
• ‘To be a Turk is to be a Muslim, so people who decide to follow Jesus are threatened, intimidated and can be rejected by their families. There is a deep seated hostility towards Christians, who are identified with foreign invaders, who invaded the Turkish empire during the crusades. Pray that these misconceptions would be shattered by the truth and love of Jesus.’
• “After 20 years of work by the Bible Society, a new modern Turkish translation of the Bible was published in 2001. Pray that these Bibles would bring fresh revelation and excitement and reach the people who need them.”
• “Pray for an end to the trouble and hostility between the Turkish army and Kurdish separatists, who are fighting for their independence from Turkey.”
• The Balkan Romani (66,167), the Han Chinese (50,039), the Karakalpak (73,725), the Karapapakh (66,521), the Levantine Arab (1,397,347), the Pushtun (58,766), and the Tosk (100,962) people groups are still not engaged. ‘Pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.’

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