PROVOCATION - Turkey Alters EU Progress Report Referring to "Ecumenical" Patriarch

His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The 2012 EU progress report for Turkey makes special reference to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, specifically noting -- on page 24 -- that "Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated in August, for the third time after almost nine decades the Divine Liturgy of the Dormition of Theotokos at the Sumela Monastery in the Black Sea province of Trabzon..."

However, the Turkish-language translation of the same report, released by Turkey's ministry of European affairs, substitutes "Ecumenical" with the phrase "rum ortodoks Patrii", in other works, the "Greek Orthodox Patriarch".

The alteration in the EU progress report appears to continue an official Turkish state policy of not recognising the Ecumenical Patriarchate as the "Primus inter pares" of Christian Orthodox Patriarchates in the Christian world. (AMNA)

Editor's Note - Obviously not... The EU can try, and try again... When will they realize that when it comes to Turkey, you can't teach an old dog new tricks? These three-piece suit officials from Brussels should really visit a library and begin reading a few history books. Didn't the Ottomans behead and slaughter -in cold blood- our Ecumenical Patriarch in 1453?  They sure as hell did... So what is to stop them from respecting Christianity in this era? E?