Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church recently said on an American television broadcast that he feels “crucified” in Turkey, upsetting many Turks. Sadly, his Holiness is right, but his complaint is not with Islam; it is with the Turkish Republic's rigid nationalism and secularism.
ANKARA – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church recently said on American TV that he feels “crucified” in Turkey, upsetting many Turks. Sadly, his Holiness is right. Yet his complaint is not with Islam but with the secular Turkish Republic.
ANKARA – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church recently said on American TV that he feels “crucified” in Turkey, upsetting many Turks. Sadly, his Holiness is right. Yet his complaint is not with Islam but with the secular Turkish Republic.