President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey held a dinner on Ramadan—which is considered a holy Muslim holiday—for the leaders of national and religious minorities of the country.
The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Archbishop Sahag II Mashalian, as well as Bedros Sirinoglu, chairman of the board of trustees of the Surp Pirgic (Holy Savior) Armenian hospital in Istanbul, were also invited to iftar, the Ramadan dinner, according to the website of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople.
In the respective photos we see that Erdogan was sitting at the iftar table next to the Armenian Patriarch.
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