Turkey gives go-ahead for first new church in century

ANKARA: Turkey's Islamic-rooted government has authorised the building of the first church in the country in nearly a century, officials said on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

The church is for the tiny Syriac community in Turkey and will be built in the Istanbul suburb of Yesilkoy on the shores of the Sea of Marmara, which already has Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Catholic churches.