TÜRKIYE: Given a New Testament and a Vision, He Became a Follower of Jesus

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🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Brother Bayram came to the United States from Türkiye (Turkey) to further his education. He started a business, where one day a Christian customer gave Bayram a New Testament. He began to read it, the beginning of a path that would lead him to faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and the Son of God.

It was a costly decision: his devout Muslim wife divorced him and wouldn't allow him to see their daughter. His brother had Bayram committed to a mental hospital, thinking anyone who would leave Islam was mentally unstable.

It has been a difficult road, but Bayram's faith has only grown stronger as he has seen God work in his life and his country. Listen as he shares the story of his journey to Christ, and how his family pressured him to return to Islam and persecuted him for his Christian faith. He'll also share stories of others still meeting Jesus in Türkiye.

Bayram will encourage and instruct listeners about how we—like the woman who gave him a New Testament—might help lead Muslims where we are toward Christ.

You can connect online with Brother Bayram and his ministry at www.albtci.org.

We'll finish this conversation with Bayram next week on VOM Radio. Between now and then, you can hear David Byle tell his story of persecution in Türkiye. You may also be interested in hearing American Pastor Andrew Brunson and his wife, Norine, tell their story of imprisonment and persecution in Türkiye.

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0:00.0	Brother Byram met an atheist in Turkey who had studied philosophy and didn't believe in miracles.
0:08.0	They spent hours discussing the Bible, but it didn't seem to go anywhere.
0:14.5	Would you be discouraged if you were trying to share your faith in a situation like that?
0:20.1	Later that night, this atheist realized a relationship
0:23.6	with God isn't about arguments or philosophies. It's about knowing a person, the Son of God,
0:31.6	Jesus Christ. Brother Byram picks up the story.
0:35.6	And he said he read more than 2,000 books but he never believed in miracles
0:39.8	but when he prayed over him something happened and that night Jesus came to him
0:43.8	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path in fact he told his disciples that the world
0:51.4	would hate them he sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:56.0	Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles, and they're still coming true today
1:00.3	in the lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring
1:05.3	stories and learn how we can help. Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network.
1:10.7	Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrus Radio Network. Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs
1:11.6	Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton. We're going to revisit this week a conversation that I recorded
1:16.5	in 2020 with a brother that we're just going to call Brother Byram. He is from one of my favorite
1:22.5	countries in the whole world, the nation of Turkey. Brother Byram, welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
1:28.0	Thank you. Thank you for having me here. Byram, your story of coming to faith involves coming to
1:34.7	America. And I want you to share a little bit of your personal testimony because some American
1:41.6	Christian played a part in helping you find Christ.
1:45.6	I hope our listeners are going to be inspired by that thought.
1:48.8	So how did you come to faith?
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