Ecumenical Patriarch meets with Alevi Leaders
01/21/2010
ISTANBUL (ANA-MPA / A. Kourkoulas) – Leading members of the Alevi community on Wednesday noted here that “the large community of Alevis in Turkey is facing the same problems faced by the non-Muslim minorities and the Ecumenical Patriarchate.”
In a visit to the Ecumenical Patriarch, the chairman of the Ehli Beyt Association, Fermani Altun, said that “we do not see any of our problems having been solved, for years. They treat us as if we are third-class citizens. In social and political life, on issues of freedom of faith and implementation, they treat us worse than non-Muslim minorities.”
Altun declared his full support for the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and particularly for the reopening of the Halki school of Theology.
“I do not understand why they do not allow the reopening of the school of theology, also, why they do not give legal status to our places of worship, the cem evi,” he said.
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