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Turkish press: Turkish president hosts minority representatives at iftar dinner

Zafer Fatih Beyaz   |06.05.2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with the representatives of minority communities at an iftar (fast-breaking) dinner at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on May 5, 2021. ( Murat Kula – Anadolu Agency )

ANKARA   

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday hosted representatives of Christian denominations and the Jewish community in the country at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara for an iftar or fast-breaking dinner during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The guests included Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomeos, President of the Balıklı Greek Hospital Foundation Konstantin Yuvanidis, Syriac Metropolitan Yusuf Çetin, Syriac Ancient Foundation President Sait Susin, Chief Rabbi İsak Haleva, President of the Turkish Jewish Community İshak İbrahimzadeh, President of the Turkish Jewish Community Foundation and Co-Chair of the Turkish Jewish Community Erol Kohen, Turkish Armenian Patriarch Sahak Maşalyan, Surp Pırgiç Armenian Hospital Foundation President Bedros Şirinoğlu, Turkish Syriac Catholic Community Spiritual Leader Orhan Abdulahad Çanlı and Assyrian Catholic Foundation Chairman Zeki Basatemir.

Ali Erbas, the head of Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs, was also present.

•Writing by Ahmet Gencturk

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS