If you have iTunes then you may have discovered the web radio feature in the playlist bar. Ethan (scroll down to "pictures"), a fellow world traveller, showed me the other day that the second station under the international channels is direct from Turkey.
I've been listening to it for most of the day.
At 4:38 a very familiar cadence broke into the normal programing of "Ee-Geh-Ee-Em FM Turkiye." The eerily beautiful call to prayer chanted without instruments called across the world from turkey for all good muslims to pray.
I laughed to myself because I've not seen good muslims respond to the call in their own country. I remember the same sound drown the entire city of Istanbul at night. We could see at least five mosques and countless minerets from our hotel window. They each simultaneous buried the city with the same drone. It did not stop anyone, but it still controlled them.
The station played a brief silence after the call went out, soliciting prayer. I obeyed it.
The reason I went to Turkey was to see what Islam looked like practically. I wanted to discover it for myself without the veil of an ocean between me and the real thing. And God allowed me to accomplish my goal.
The reason I came back is to tell you that there is a wide open feild out there waiting for harvest. Please pray for the people of Turkey. They are realizing that Islam is as dead as its first prophet. Please pray for labourers. Please pray for those serving there now. Pray for the strength and unity and purity of the Church. Pray that God will use people like you and me to somehow lead the Turks to know God before this amazing window of opportunity closes.
"so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks." Acts 19:10
Posted by timf at October 29, 2004 05:15 PMthanks. i've been listening to it. right now there's sort of an operatic turkish gent belting out something or other. i need to hit my language study books and tapes again.
it is funny to me how listening to the radio brings back all those turkish words. I heard 'buyurun' the other day. I think it means 'here you go' or 'there it is' or something like that.
Posted by: timf at November 4, 2004 05:10 PMi can't find the radio station today. did they take it off?
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