Turkey’s Armenians in Crisis over Patriarch

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The crisis demonstrates not only the Armenian community’s problematic relationship with the state, but also the Turkish state’s unchanging policy of meddling and manipulation vis-à-vis its minorities despite changing governments. It is a typical divide-and-rule tactic, which constitutes a flagrant breach of religious freedom and serves neither the Armenian community nor Turkish democracy.

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