"Ahmet Hakan: This was inevitable
If you confuse the minds of people in a country with statements like 'The Fener Greek Patriarchate will be ecumenical, and the goal of these people is to set up a second Vatican in Istanbul......' And if you provoke the masses with comments like 'Turkey is on the verge of being overwhelmed by missionaries,' or 'There are thousands of churches which have been set up in apartments....' And if you spread the feeling around the society that 'Everyone is against us....the only friends Turks have are other Turks.....' And if you make gaffes like saying 'The blame lays entirely with those that have tried to set up dialogues between religions....': Well, of course, the result is what we have now. The seeds of enmity and strife have been planted."
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