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    TURKEY'S RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS HEAD MEETS ARMENIAN ACTING PATRIARCH

    armradio.am
    30.11.2011 12:10

    The head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate, Mehmet Gormez, met
    with the acting Patriarch of Turkish Armenian community, the Hurriyet
    Daily News reports.

    Gormez said he was honored to welcome Archbishop Aram Ateshyan 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."

    Ateshyan 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," Ateshyan said in reference to who is a
    "minority" in Turkey.

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