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TURKISH PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MEETS WITH RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Mediamax, Armenia
July 2 2013
Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek met with Turkey's religious leaders
during the 22th Parliamentary Assembly of Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held in Istanbul June 30, using the
occasion to voice his hopes for a more tolerant and respectful world.
"I hope your calls reach to those who should hear and understand,"Cicek
told those present at the gathering, who included Greek Patriarch
Bartholomew, Armenian Patriarch Aram AteÅ~_yan, Chief Rabbi Ä°sak
Haleva, and Mehmet Pacacı from the Religious Affairs Directorate.
The leaders made speeches at a special session promoting dialogue
and cooperation over the issues of racism, intolerance and xenophobia.
"We are supposed to choose dialogue rather than division, tolerance
instead of extremism and consensus rather than discrimination as role
models," Bartholomew said in his speech.
AteÅ~_yan, for his part, touched on the ongoing humanitarian crisis
in Syria in his address. "We invite the world's politicians to mercy,
to forget about their countries' interests and instead pursue the
humanity being destroyed in Syria," he said.
July/01/2013
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Mediamax, Armenia
July 2 2013
Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek met with Turkey's religious leaders
during the 22th Parliamentary Assembly of Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held in Istanbul June 30, using the
occasion to voice his hopes for a more tolerant and respectful world.
"I hope your calls reach to those who should hear and understand,"Cicek
told those present at the gathering, who included Greek Patriarch
Bartholomew, Armenian Patriarch Aram AteÅ~_yan, Chief Rabbi Ä°sak
Haleva, and Mehmet Pacacı from the Religious Affairs Directorate.
The leaders made speeches at a special session promoting dialogue
and cooperation over the issues of racism, intolerance and xenophobia.
"We are supposed to choose dialogue rather than division, tolerance
instead of extremism and consensus rather than discrimination as role
models," Bartholomew said in his speech.
AteÅ~_yan, for his part, touched on the ongoing humanitarian crisis
in Syria in his address. "We invite the world's politicians to mercy,
to forget about their countries' interests and instead pursue the
humanity being destroyed in Syria," he said.
July/01/2013
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress