In a recent development, the Turkish government has targeted the Ecumenical Patriarch, following inflammatory remarks by Devlet Bahçeli, President Erdogan’s coalition partner. Bahçeli, addressing his party’s parliamentary group, declared, “There is no Ecumenical Patriarch, nor a city named Constantinople.”
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The Patriarch left by plane this morning for Zurich from Istanbul. The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew…