Turkey's Systematic Persecution of Religious Minorities

[TomSea]

Turkey's Systematic Persecution of Religious Minorities
By Hon. B. Theodore Bozonelis

Despite the world-wide recognition of the status of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians, the government of Turkey will give no legal standing and status to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the historical Holy Center of Orthodox Christianity at the Phanar, in Istanbul. The lack of legal standing and status in essence nullifies property and other fundamental civil rights in Turkey for the Ecumenical Patriarchate which precludes its full exercise of religious freedom. The Ecumenical Patriarchate cannot own in its name the churches to serve the faithful or the cemeteries to provide for their repose. Since it lacks a legal standing, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is powerless to pursue legal remedies to assert property rights or even seek to repair deteriorating property without government approval.

Read more at: http://aina.org/news/20180216141707.htm

Pretty dry article but truth in it, nonetheless.

[Fishrrman]

Turkey is a muslim nation -- really, what else EXCEPT "persecution" of non-islamic faiths is to be expected from them?