RE: Why would Christians want to be allied with a state that’s ideology is one to persecute Christians?
Turkey did not persecute Christians until Erdogan came along. And Erdogan left Christians alone until very recently.
Well, modern Turkey did not, but Greeks that suffered under the Empire prior to the 20th century I am sure felt persecuted.
But aligning ourselves with an Islamist like Erdogan. I don’t think we should be allied with any Muslim countries.
‘Erdogan left Christians alone’ - I don’t think so. My Turkish Christian friend, living here in California, was talking about Christian persecution there at least 10 years ago. Erdogan has always been a Bad Actor. Her brother was the journalist/ head of the paper in Istanbul, who was assassinated at least that long ago. She knew all the latest there. (RIP).
Tell that to the Armenian Christians butchered by the Ottoman empire, i.e., by the Turks.
In 2005, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) affirmed that scholarly evidence revealed the "Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire began a systematic genocide of its Armenian citizens – an unarmed Christian minority population. More than a million Armenians were exterminated through direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death marches". The IAGS also condemned Turkish attempts to deny the factual and moral reality of the Armenian Genocide. In 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity produced a letter signed by 53 Nobel Laureates re-affirming the Genocide Scholars' conclusion that the 1915 killings of Armenians constituted genocide. -- Wiki