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Işık Abla, left, recently returned to Turkey after 10 years of exile following her conversion from Islam to Christianity. While in her home country, she witnessed a country at a spiritual crossroads, desperate for the truth and hope of the gospel. Photo courtesy of Işık Abla.

A Christian’s return to Turkey: A journey of faith, miracles, and unprecedented openness

By Işık Abla – Special to Higher Ground

Activists some holding banners with Turkish writing that read, " Children should not be killed , so they can eat candies", " I couldn't play with my toys because I was killed" and " If I had not been killed this toy would have been my sleeping friend " during a protest outside the courthouse where dozens of Turkish healthcare workers including doctors and nurses go on trial for fraud and causing the deaths of 10 infants, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday Nov, 18, 2024.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Health workers go on trial in Turkey accused of private care scheme linked to 10 infant deaths

By Mehmet Guzel - Associated Press

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Turkey’s Erdogan says he remains hopeful about reconciliation with Syria

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, right, welcomes his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan before their meeting in Athens, Greece, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece and Turkey press ahead with talks in effort to smooth often volatile relations

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

FILE - Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, speaks during a news conference in Hassakeh, Syria, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, file)

Kurdish leader in Syria calls for diplomatic solutions to conflict with Turkey

By Hogir Abdo - Associated Press

Emergency and security teams are deployed outside of Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. at the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Yavuz Ozden/Dia Photo via AP)

Turkey strikes Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq for a second day

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Mourners carry the casket of Fethullah Gülen, an influential Turkish spiritual leader and Islamic scholar who died this week in self-exile in the United States, at a funeral prayer service, Thursday, Oct, 24, 2024, in Augusta, N.J. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Thousands mourn Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish spiritual leader who died in U.S.

By Michael Rubinkam - Associated Press

Emergency and security teams are deployed outside of Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. at the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Yavuz Ozden/Dia Photo via AP)

Turkey strikes Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq for a second day

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Smoke raises as emergency rescue teams and police officers attend outside Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. on the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (IHA via AP)

An attack on a key Turkish defense company leaves 4 dead

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

FILE - Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen meets members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pa. in July 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Post, File)

Erdogan says the cleric accused of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt had a ‘dishonorable death’

Associated Press

Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pa. in July 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Post, File)

Fethullah Gulen, self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader, dies in Pennsylvania

By Mike Rubinkam - Associated Press

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the BRICS business forum in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Putin hosts a summit in a bid to show the West it can’t keep Russia off the global stage

By Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pa. in July 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Post, File)

Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gulen dies in the U.S.

By Michael Rubinkam - Associated Press

People rest in a public park outdoors away from buildings following an earthquake in Malatya, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (Burhan Karaduman/Dia Photo via AP)

An earthquake measuring 5.9 hits eastern Turkey, causing panic but no major damage

Associated Press

Traces of gunfire appear on the ground of a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul, Turkey Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

After eight years of exile, I’m returning home to Islamic Turkey as a Christian

By Işık Abla – Special to Higher Ground