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Turkey returns confiscated property in gesture to minority groups

Turkey returns confiscated property in gesture to minority groups
August 29, 2011 01:41 AM
By Suzan Fraser
Associated Press

ANKARA: Turkey’s government is returning hundreds of properties confiscated from the country’s Christian and Jewish minorities over the past 75 years in a gesture to religious groups who complain of discrimination that is also likely to thwart possible court rulings against the country.

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