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| Turkey Boosts Security for Orthodox Patriarch after 'Attack Plot' |
| 2013-05-12 |
| [An Nahar] Turkish police have boosted security around Patriarch Bartholomew I after an alleged plot to assassinate the Orthodox Christian leader, his office said Saturday. A front man at the patriarchate in Istanbul said they had been informed that one person had been jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and that others were being sought. Turkish media said the arrested suspect, identified as Serdar A., allegedly planned to assassinate Bartholomew I on May 29, the 560th anniversary of the Turkish capture of Constantinople, present day Istanbul. "Police have strengthened security at the patriarchate," said front man Father Dositheos Agnathostomatous. "It is doing everything to ensure the security of the patriarchate and the patriarch." Agnathostomatous said however that Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople, did not take the plot very seriously. "His holiness does not believe that it is something serious," he said. The development comes as several incidents have sown concerns among Turkey's Christian minority, which numbers 100,000 people. |
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