Open Letter 314/8.6. 2016

To Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ioannis Amanatides.

Mr. Minister.

The zealous involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs into a matter regarding a monument (Hagia Sophia), which belongs to another country (Turkey) astonished every clearly thinking Greek citizen.  We Ethnic Hellenes are even more astonished from your statement that the reading of a monotheistic religious text in a space that up until 1934 functioned as a monotheistic temple, and only afterwards designated as a cultural monument, is  not in accordance with European norms and rules of respect and tolerance for diversity and religious freedom.    The same is true of your statement that you will  take the case to international organizations . Continue reading Open letter to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ioannis Amanatides →