MAIN OPPOSITION TO MEET WITH TURKEY’S RELIGIOUS MINORITY COMMUNITIES’ HEADS
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Jan 25 2015
ISTANBUL
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal
Kılıcdaroglu will come together with the leaders of Turkey’s
religious minority communities in Istanbul on Jan. 26.
Kılıcdaroglu will meet with Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Bartholomew,
Deputy Armenian Patriarch Archbishop Aram AteÃ…~_yan, Syriac Catholic
Deputy Patriarch Chorepiscopus Yusuf Sag, Istanbul Syriac Orthodox
Church Metropolitan Yusuf Cetin and Chief Rabbi Ä°shak Haleva in
Istanbul’s Sait Halim PaÃ…~_a mansion near the Bosphorus Strait.
Kılıcdaroglu and the heads of the religious minority communities
will exchange views during the meeting. While the spiritual leaders
are expected to put forth their needs and expectations as Turkey’s
religious minorities, Kılıcdaroglu is expected to share the CHP’s
perspective and policies on these issues.
CHP vice chairmen Murat Ozcelik and Sezgin Tanrıkulu, the newly
appointed CHP Istanbul provincial head Murat Karayalcın, Istanbul’s
Sarıyer district’s Mayor Ã…~^ukru Genc and CHP member Talin ErguneÃ…~_
will accompany Kılıcdaroglu during the meeting.
During his visit to Turkey, Pope Francis had attended a divine liturgy
led by Patriarch Bartholomew, as Bartholomew had also attended a
mass conducted by Pope Francis in Istanbul’s Saint Esprit Catholic
Church, as a signal of the warming ties between the Roman Catholic
and Orthodox Churches.
January/25/2015
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