"Orthodox patriarch blesses Turkish EU entry
TERESA KÜCHLER
24.09.2008 @ 17:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Despite ongoing disputes over Christian and other religious minorities in Turkey, the world's leading Orthodox prelate, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, has endorsed Turkey's bid to join the European Union and appealed to Brussels not to make religious or cultural differences an obstacle to membership."
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