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    MINORITIES IN TURKEY EXPECT EQUAL CITIZENSHIP FROM THE NEW CONSTITUTION

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/03/05/minorities-in-turkey-expect-equal-citizenship-from-the-new-constitution/
    12:46 05.03.2013

    Minorities in Turkey are raising high expectations over a new
    Constitution, Laki Vingas, who is in charge of minority foundations in
    the Foundations Directorate General, said yesterday during an Istanbul
    panel that gathered Orthodox Parliament members from various countries,
    the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    "Turkey is in a process of change. As minority communities, we expect
    equal citizenship from the new Constitution," said Vingas, addressing
    the panel titled "The Social Dimension of Monotheistic Religion,"
    organized by The Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO)
    at the Hotel Renaissance Istanbul Bosphorus.

    Vingas made a speech titled "Religious minorities as a factor of
    democracy and co-existence," in which he underlined the minorities'
    hopes from the new Constitution.

    The conference was held on Mar. 3 and 4 with the attendance of Fener
    Greek Patriarch Bartholomew, Turkey's Armenians Acting Patriarch
    Archbishop Aram Atešyan, President of the IAO General Assembly and
    Member of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Popov. Parliament members
    from Greece, Finland, Russia, Armenia, Egypt, Poland, Georgia, Serbia,
    Bulgaria and Greek Cyprus were present at the panel.

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