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Turkey’s Religious Affairs President Calls for Reopening of the Halki Seminary

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CONSTANTINOPLE – The president of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate, Professor Mehmet Gormez, has voiced his support for the reopening the Greek Orthodox Halki (Heybeliada) Seminary, which has been closed since 1971, saying that it is a fundamental right of non-Muslims living in Turkey to raise their own theologians. "

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  1 reader comment

1. Philip Vorgias
wrote on
July 15, 2012
11:17 PM
Why should it take a Turkish Muslim to request what Turkey is OBLIGATED to do by the Lausanne Treaty?
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