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WHAT ELSE TO EXPECT FROM TURKS
yerkir.am
15:47 - 27.09.2011
Leader of the orthodox church of Cyprus Khrizostomos the second pays an
official visit to Georgia and has asked for any possible aid against
Turks to Georgian patriarch Ilya the second.
"Over 500 orthodox churches that are in the occupied land are in
disastrous condition. Some of them have been destroyed; some have
been converted into mosques, night clubs and even to mews. Icons and
church property has been sold in Europe and USA", said he.
According to the archbishop, church of Cyprus has demanded many times
the Turkish administration to allow them reconstruct churches; however,
there was no answer.
He added that in 1974 37% of the island was occupied by Turkey, which
wanted to acquire the rest territories, deporting the orthodox Greeks
and reestablishing Muslims that came from Anatolia.
yerkir.am
15:47 - 27.09.2011
Leader of the orthodox church of Cyprus Khrizostomos the second pays an
official visit to Georgia and has asked for any possible aid against
Turks to Georgian patriarch Ilya the second.
"Over 500 orthodox churches that are in the occupied land are in
disastrous condition. Some of them have been destroyed; some have
been converted into mosques, night clubs and even to mews. Icons and
church property has been sold in Europe and USA", said he.
According to the archbishop, church of Cyprus has demanded many times
the Turkish administration to allow them reconstruct churches; however,
there was no answer.
He added that in 1974 37% of the island was occupied by Turkey, which
wanted to acquire the rest territories, deporting the orthodox Greeks
and reestablishing Muslims that came from Anatolia.