Protest of Turkish labor party against Patriarch's request for U.S. aid

ISTANBUL, 15/03/2002 (ANA - A. Kourkoulas)

The Turkish labor party IP organized a rally on Thursday to protest against Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's request of U.S. President George Bush to help him in the reopening of the Halki School of Theology.

About 20 members of the party gathered near the Patriarchal residence and
read their protest statement to the television channels that followed them.

action@hec.greece.org

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