The Crucified Patriarch
Posted 2010-01-04 21:56 GMT
The Crucified Patriarch The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, who is the spiritual head of 300 million Orthodox Christians round the world, created a stir recently with an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes". According to the Patriarch Orthodox Christians are treated as second-class citizens in Turkey and sometimes he feels "crucified".
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu regarded the comment as "an undesired slip of the tongue" and Deputy Prime Minister B
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