“I have no worries,” Bartholomew wrote to the Hürriyet
Daily News in a written statement. “I am protected by God first, and then the
state.” Fener Greek Patriarchate spokesman Dositheos Anagnostopulos also said
the police had taken the necessary measures and everybody should be calm. “The
claims are not definite yet, but we feel safe,” he said.
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This picture taken on April 21, 2013 shows Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew I , the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox
Christians, in Istanbul. AFP Photo
Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew said he is
protected by “God first and then the state” in regards to allegations that he
was the target of an assassination plot.
Bartholomew responded to the claims listed in an
investigation launched by an Ankara prosecutor claiming that the Istanbul-based
patriarch would be the target of an assassination attempt on May 29, the 560th
anniversary of Istanbul’s conquest by Mehmed the Conqueror.
“I have no worries,” Bartholomew wrote to the Hürriyet
Daily News in a written statement. “I am protected by God first, and then the
state.”
Fener Greek Patriarchate spokesman Dositheos
Anagnostopulos also said the police had taken the necessary measures and
everybody should be calm.
“The claims are not definite yet, but we feel safe,” he
said.
Last week, private broadcaster NTV said the investigation
was launched after a letter was sent from the Central Anatolian province of
Kayseri, claiming that the patriarch would be the target of an assassination
attempt. One man was detained and police forces are searching for two others.
The suspects recently arrived in Istanbul from Kayseri, police sources said.
S.A., the detained suspect, denied the claims and said he was in Istanbul to
visit his relatives and had no intention or plan to murder Bartholomew. A file
opened by a Kayseri prosecutor has been handed over to the Ankara public
prosecutor.
May/14/2013
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The Greek Orthodox ecumenic Patriarch Bartholomeos has got a point but meanwhile he has got nothing to lose .
With his advanced age even he was assasinated by someone with their dark plans in their minds ,that won't serve it's purpose but probably give some advantage to the Patriarchate more then ever in front of it's enemies.
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