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CHP LEADER MEETS WITH LEADERS OF TURKEY'S RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
Daily Sabah, Turkey
Jan 26 2015
DAILY SABAH
The leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP),
Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, yesterday convened with the heads of religious
minorities in Turkey, including Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Armenian Patriarch Archbishop Aram
AteÅ~_yan, Deputy Armenian Patriarch Archbishop Aram AteÅ~_yan, Syriac
Catholic Deputy Patriarch Chorepiscopus Yusuf Cetin, Istanbul Syriac
Orthodox Church Metropolitan Yusuf Cetin and Chief Rabbi Ä°shak Haleva
at a luncheon in Istanbul.
Following the closed-door meeting, CHP leader Kılıcdaroglu said:
"We convened with spiritual leaders. We [the CHP] listened to their
problems. They said that some of their problems are due to legislation,
while some of them are due to certain practices. We stressed that as
the CHP, our principle is not to intervene in people's lifestyles
and not to judge their ethnic origins. Some of their problems will
be added to the Parliament's agenda in the upcoming days."
CHP Vice Chair Murat Ozcelik, human rights lawyer and deputy Sezgin
Tanrıkulu, Istanbul provincial chairman Murat Karayalcın, Istanbul's
Sarıyer district Mayor Å~^ukru Genc and party member Talin ErguneÅ~_
also attended the meeting.
From: Baghdasarian
Daily Sabah, Turkey
Jan 26 2015
DAILY SABAH
The leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP),
Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, yesterday convened with the heads of religious
minorities in Turkey, including Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Armenian Patriarch Archbishop Aram
AteÅ~_yan, Deputy Armenian Patriarch Archbishop Aram AteÅ~_yan, Syriac
Catholic Deputy Patriarch Chorepiscopus Yusuf Cetin, Istanbul Syriac
Orthodox Church Metropolitan Yusuf Cetin and Chief Rabbi Ä°shak Haleva
at a luncheon in Istanbul.
Following the closed-door meeting, CHP leader Kılıcdaroglu said:
"We convened with spiritual leaders. We [the CHP] listened to their
problems. They said that some of their problems are due to legislation,
while some of them are due to certain practices. We stressed that as
the CHP, our principle is not to intervene in people's lifestyles
and not to judge their ethnic origins. Some of their problems will
be added to the Parliament's agenda in the upcoming days."
CHP Vice Chair Murat Ozcelik, human rights lawyer and deputy Sezgin
Tanrıkulu, Istanbul provincial chairman Murat Karayalcın, Istanbul's
Sarıyer district Mayor Å~^ukru Genc and party member Talin ErguneÅ~_
also attended the meeting.
From: Baghdasarian