After the protests
Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces a reform package
Oct 5th 2013 | ISTANBUL
IS THE grand reformer back? It depends whom you ask. Many among Turkey’s tiny Syrian Orthodox Christian community, or Syriacs, would say “yes”, in response to the cocktail of legislative and administrative reforms unveiled on September 30th by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the conservative prime minister. It includes a provision under which the state will return land belonging to Mor Gabriel, the world’s oldest Syriac monastery.
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