The Turkish Ministry of Education has issued a new history textbook inciting schoolchildren to persecution of Christians.

The teenagers are taught "to confront Christian missionaries who threaten Turkish national unity and culture."

The Union of Christian Churches of Turkey condemned publication of the textbook, which fills the children with old stereotypes of "Christian conspiracy against Turkey," Regions.ru reports.

Two Christian monks were killed in Turkey in 2007. 4 people were killed in an assault on a Christian mission in Malatia in 2008.