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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
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