[MGSA-L] Turkey Returns Island Orphanage to Greek Orthodox Church

June Samaras june.samaras at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 21:05:28 PST 2010


Turkey Returns Island Orphanage to Greek Orthodox Church

By Benjamin Harvey - Nov 29, 2010 8:55 AM ET

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-29/turkey-returns-island-orphanage-to-greek-orthodox-church.html


Turkey returned the title deed for a Greek boys’ orphanage to the head
of the Greek Orthodox church today, complying with an order from the
European Court of Human Rights.

The deed for the orphanage on the island of Heybeliada near Istanbul
was given to Cem Murat Sofuoglu, a lawyer for the Istanbul-based
patriarchate, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

The patriarchate, headed by orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, lost
control of the long-abandoned orphanage in a 2005 court decision, and
had been fighting a legal battle since then to get it back, Sofuoglu
told Anatolia.

To contact the reporter on this story: Benjamin Harvey in Ankara
bharvey11 at bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg at
phirschberg at bloomberg.net
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