Turkey’s opposition leader to meet minority representatives![]() May 8, 2012 - 15:53 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey’s main opposition leader is scheduled to meet with minority group representatives in Istanbul on May In attendance at the dinner, organized by the Adalar Municipality, will be Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and the leading names from the Armenian, Roma, Jewish, Syriac and Catholic communities in Turkey. The minority summit comes just days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s statement that the ruling party’s “red-lines are a single state, a single nation, a single flag and a single religion.” The minority leaders invited include Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, Turkey’s chief rabbi İzak Haleva and Armenian Acting Patriarch Aram Ateşyan. ![]() ![]() The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, have arrived in Washington. The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions. Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. ![]() ![]() Partner news | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |