Even the desire of the Turks to become members of the European Union did not oblige official Ankara to give up the policy aimed at humiliation of the rights of the ethnical religious minorities. The Turkish authorities pay special attention to the Constantinople diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and its leader, the Archbishop Mesrop Mutafyan. The Armenian Patriarch, concerned with the fate of its compatriots, has become a hostage in the hands of the Turkish special services. However, it did not help the few Armenians that still continue to live in Turkey.