MINORITIES’ LEGAL ENTITY ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED IN ISTANBUL CONFERENCE
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Jan 27 2014
ISTANBUL – Hurriyet Daily News
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A group of community leaders gather in Istanbul at a government-led
meeting in this photo taken from the Community foundations website.
The legal entities of minorities in Turkey will be discussed in
Istanbul on Jan. 30 at a conference hosted by the Istanbul Bilgi
University Faculty of Law, in partnership with the Community
Foundations Representative Office and with the assistance of the
Venice Commission.
The conference, titled “Legal Entities of Non-Muslims: “Problems and
Rights II,” will start at 09.00 a.m. at the university’s law faculty
building in the Dolapdere neighborhood.
The conference will open with speeches by Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı,
the dean of the law faculty, and Laki Vingas, the Minority Community
Foundations representative.
On May 13, 2013, the problems of the minority communities in Turkey
were discussed at a conference held at the Ankara University and
Minority Community Foundations’ office in Ankara.
Many institutions belonging to religious or ethnic minorities such
as churches, cemeteries, and hospitals are deprived of legal entity
rights, including the Fener Greek Patriarchate, Turkey’s Armenian
Patriarchate, the Jewish Chief Rabbi’s Office, and various Catholic
institutions.
January/27/2014
From: A. Papazian
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