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    RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS HEAD MEETS ARMENIAN CLERIC

    Hurriyet Daily News
    Nov 29 2011
    Turkey

    The head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate, Mehmet Görmez,
    met with the acting patriarch of Turkish Armenian community yesterday.

    Görmez said he was honored to welcome Archbishop Aram AteÅ~_yan
    as a guest of the directorate. It is not right to classify people
    as either minorities or majorities, he said. "We are the children
    of a common civilization, history and culture. Identities cannot be
    defined with numbers."

    AteÅ~_yan said the word "minority" should be put to one side and
    added that Turkish and Armenian people had lived together in shared
    territories for centuries as members of two different religions
    and communities.

    "Even though some circles have caused disturbance in this country, it
    is time that we left that aside and returned to the good old days,"
    he said. "There are no Armenian, Greek Orthodox or Syriac people,
    only children of the same soil," AteÅ~_yan said in reference to who
    is a "minority" in Turkey.


    From: Baghdasarian
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