The meaning of Davutoğlu’s visit with Patriarchs

ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ o.cengiz@todayszaman.com 6/3/2012 Last week, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited with the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs, as well as held meetings with the representatives of other minority groups. For any country, a visit from a minister with members of religious minorities may be worth reporting, but these visits had implications that go well beyond newsworthiness. We used to see photographs of American presidents and vice presidents sitting side by side with the Ecumenical Patriarch, but we have never seen a minister visit a Patriarch before