Patriarch Bartholomew Feels "Crucified" by Turkey
CBS' 60 Minutes broadcast Dec. 20, 2009
Re-Broadcast Aug. 8, 2010 on CBS
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Patriarch Bartholomew Feels "Crucified" by Turkey
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The leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians talks to CBS' 60 Minutes about the hardships he and his followers face in Turkey.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the 300 million-member Orthodox Christian Church, feels "crucified" living in Turkey under a government he says would like to see his nearly 2,000-year-old Patriarchate die out.
Update: August 2010:
UPDATE: March 2010:
Turkish Vice PM: "?o problem in the reopening of Greek school in Heibeli Island" by Apostolos Papapostolou.
Turkish Vice Prime Minister Bulent Arinc (foto) met with representatives of national and religious minorities in Turkey.?21 people, including Israeli rabbi Isaak Halevan, Georgian Orthodox Church representative Simon Zazade, Head of Religious Council of the Armenian Patriarchate Archbishop Aram Ateshyan and Greek Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople attended the meeting, Turkish Haberler website reports.?According to him, all citizens of Turkey have equal rights. “Today, not all the problems of ethnic minorities are solved. However, we are sincere in our efforts to resolve them,” he said.?Responding to the journalists’ questions, Arinc noted that sees no problem in the reopening of Greek school in
Heibeli Island.
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