YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. At the urgent request of the Armenian patriarch of Constantinople, Archbishop Mesrop Mutafian the leaders of national minorities of Turkey gave up the intention to send a complaint to the Council of Europe on the occasion of violations of human rights in Turkey.
The Turkish newspaper Milliyet reports, the representatives of the Greek orthodox, Syrian, Catholic and Armenian churches after futile attempts to solve the problems, connected with oppression of national minorities, by appealing to the Turkish government and parliament, had formed a joint letter to the Council of Europe. In the letter its authors had submitted tasks and requirements of the national minorities of Turkey of Christian religion. But the Archbishop Mutafian persuaded the leaders of the national minorities to use all the potentialities for settlement of this problem in Turkey. In particular, Mutafian offered to appeal to the Commission for human rights of the Great National Assembly of Turkey. The patriarch thinks that the letter contained assaults regarding Turkey. He called on to express the requirements softly and to avoid signing the text of the letter.
Yorumlar kapatıldı.