How a Funeral Home is Healing the Painful History of Turkish Christians

An Orthodox woman prays during Christmas Liturgy at Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul / Reuters 10/3/2012 An Orthodox cemetery in Istanbul is trying to negotiate Turkey’s complicated Muslim-Christian relationship. More than 40 years ago, Kirkor Çapan, an ethnic Armenian, and his father set up what today is one of the last Christian funeral homes still operating in Istanbul. But the funeral parlor is not a religious island unto itself