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On April 30, 1928, a court in the town of Bursa, Republic of Turkey, found three American mission-school teachers guilty of proselytizing in contravention of Turkish law.1 Edith Sanderson, Lucille Day, and Jeannie Jillson received a light punishment, a small fine, and a three-day imprisonment, which they were allowed to serve by being confined to school grounds. Yet the leniency of the judgment belied the magnitude of the case during a tectonic shift in local politics that reverberated across the Atlantic.
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