Due to changes in Turkey`s relationship to the external world and in the Evangelical Christianity movement hundreds of missionaries have come to Turkey since the 1980s. As a result about 1,500 Turks converted to Christianity and became part of a statedly Turkish Christian movement. As the group became more visible they have been subjected to a nationwide campaign against them supported by the Turkish army, mainstream media, and left and right-wing nationalist. The campaign had serious and deadly consequences for the community. This presentation explores the nature of the anti-missionary campaign and asks why the issue of Turkish converts to Christianity is such a sensitive and offensive one to Turkish nationalists when Turkish Christians are self-described nationalists? Why is being Turkish and Christian are seen as contradictory? What do nationalists understand by Christianization? And what does this anti-Christian sentiment reveal? Based on ethnographic research among Turkish Christians and discourse analysis of anti-missionary literature in Turkey, I discuss the political stance of the Turkish Christian movement and the nature of the nationalist resistance to it.