(GEN) TURKISH STATE MINISTER VISITS ARMENIAN CHURCH IN ISTANBUL.ISTANBUL, Mar 24, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Turkish State Minister and Deputy Premier Hayati Yazici paid a visit to an Armenian church Armenian Church, autonomous Christian church, sometimes also called the Gregorian Church. Its head, a primate of honor only, is the catholicos of Yejmiadzin, Armenia; Karekin II became catholicos in 1999. in Istanbul on Monday. Visiting the "Surp Vartanants Church" in Sisli district of Istanbul, Yazici held talks with Aram Atesyan, Turkish Armenian Patriarchal Archbishop and Chairman of the Religious Council. Delivering a speech during the visit, Yazici said, "our political approach does not consist of fanaticism Fanaticism See also Extremism. Adamites various sects preaching a return to life before the fall. [Christian Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 8] assassins Moslem murder teams used hashish as stimulus (11th and 12th centuries). , it is rather based on project management". Yazici said that political parties should create an atmosphere where individuals could freely fulfill the requirements of their beliefs. "Political parties should not have any beliefs, they should have programs," Yazici said. Speaking during the visit, Archbishop Atesyan said that Turkish and Armenian people had lived together and cried for each other's sorrows for years. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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