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religion. But that which it has not succeeded with zembekika and
relationships is being affected by the Orthodox Church, since it has
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are based on Orthodox Christianity . This is a reality ev en though a

few Seljuk Turks changed the ethno-religious character of millions of
Greeks in A sia Minor, Thrace, Pontus and other places of Turkey
when they were forced to accept Islam. Many accepted Islam
superficially to sav e their necks; today Orthodox religiosity is being
ex pressed by their descendants. The cry ptochristians make up for the
Patriarchate of Constantinople a hidden flock of tragic v ictims of an
autocratic rule of many centuries. These people liv e ev ery where in
Turkey , especially in the Pontus area where there are possibly two
million of them. Remote churches are functioning again and they are
being filled by cry ptochristians who receiv e communion rev erently
and they fast ev en from oliv e oil for fiv e day s ev ery week during
Great Lent. Graffiti is being written on the walls of the City by y oung
people who say : We do not want to be Muslims any more. We want to
become Christians. The Turks say to v isiting Greeks: This land is
y our land. Ev en the guards at museums tell the Greeks not to pay
entrance fees because these museums belong to y ou.
The Turks do not consider it a blessing from God that they unjustly
stole the land from the Romans (Greeks) and banished them from it.
They consider this injustice the reason for their not being able to
progress as a people. They understand that they liv e in a land where
all things are Hellenic: the history , the monuments, the cities, the
civ ilization and the most significant of all, they believ e that Greek
blood flows in their v eins. The circumstances that lead to this
understanding are many .
In the Church of the Holy Trinity at an intersection in Constantinople,
Father Dositheos encounters a y oung Turkish girl who makes an
offering to his church, lights a candle, rev erences an icon and then
ex plains to the priest why she did this: I am fond of what y ou people
do. Ev ery Friday when the Monastery of the Transfiguration has
serv ices, it is filled with many Turks. On the Island of Antigoni, the
Turks honor Saint George by giv ing gifts to the Monastery of oliv e oil,
candles, and money in thanksgiv ing for the many miracles that the
Saint performs. Many Turks v irtually stream to one of the forty holy
places of the City , one of them in Baloukli, seeking help for the many
problems that afflict their liv es. For ex ample, on the first day of ev ery
month at the Church of the Holy Mother in Befa, hundreds of Turks
come to get Holy Water. A nd on New Y ears Day , this Church is
ov erwhelmed with thousands of worshipers. Ev ery Monday near
Hagia Sophia, at the Church of Saint Therapon, a priest continuously
reads pray ers for Muslims who wish to confess. The Shrine at the cav e
of Saint Demetrios is filled with crutches and offerings from Turks who
hav e been healed. They attend church serv ices, they ask to receiv e
Holy Communion, they v enerate the Cross, and they thank the priest
for blessing their sick child. They especially lov e Saint Nicholas. Of
special interest is that a Turkish woman has kept the v otiv e light
burning in the Church of the Archangels in Moshoshoninon for fifty
y ears.
The Turkish paper Sampah writes: The reopening of the Patriarchal
School of Halki is a request that is v ery logical. The author of the
article Tsanar supports the title ecumenical for the Patriarchate
which was promulgated at the Fourth Ecumenical Council in 451 A D.
Mr. G. Tzibaoglou writes that the hanging of the Patriarch Gregory V
was a fatal mistake. A Turkish bank published a magazine about the
By zantine Empire which contains a message of Saint Basil to the
y outh. The Turkish A cademy of Scientists organized a conference on
the world of the By zantine Empire. The Orthodox churches in Turkey
do not pay for electricity as they do in Greece. The churches are
ex empt. Turkish sources in a study prepared by N. Hiladakis rev eals
that there is a Monastery of the Pantocrator (Christ the Ruler of A ll),
where the tombs of the Emperors of the Komnenion and the
Palaeologian dy nasties are located. This area is known as Fatih and it

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is a center of Muslim fanaticism. It is an area where many Turks light

candles and toss money into a tomb in spite of a posted sign that
strictly forbids Muslims from doing this.
In this same area there was a By zantine Church of the Holy Apostles.
A mosque was built upon the ruins of this church and following a
number of renov ations, the tomb of Mohammad the Conqueror was
opened. This Mohammad had a Christian mother. It was also
determined that there is a trap door that leads to an underground
room of the old church. This indicates that Mohammad had been
buried in an Orthodox Church amongst By zantine Emperors. There
are witnesses that say that at the end of his life, Mohammed had
embraced Christianity and that nex t to his grav e were found a Cross
and an icon of the Holy Mother. The Church of Hagia Irene which is
nex t to Hagia Sophia was nev er turned into a mosque. Mohammed
allowed it to function as a Christian Church in honor of his Christian
mother. All of these issues, at certain times, occupy the Turkish mass
media. The periodical Aktoul printed by the newspaper Sampah
headlined in one of its issues: Mohammed the Conqueror was a
Christian. The Weekly Turkish Review of ev ents say s: They are
returning to their religious roots. It also reports that in three y ears
eight million copies of the Gospels were distributed in the Turkish
language. It also reported that many Muslims are openly being
baptized. These are descendents of Islamized Christians of Greek
origin who uncov er their Christian roots.
The paper Sampah headlines: The Church of the Panagia in
Constantinople is the last hope for the Turks. They characterize it as
"The Door of Hope, a place of pilgrimage and a place of pray er for the
problems that afflict the Turks. On the first day of ev ery month the
Turks gather at this church in great numbers. The fame of the Holy
Mother has spread ev ery where amongst the Turks and ev en wellknown Turks come to light candles and kiss the hand of an Orthodox
priest. They proclaim that is where the House of God is and that is
why so many miracles are happening there.
At the Church of the Archangel Michael in Sebastea, it is written in the
annals of the liv es of the Saints that little fish that swam in the Holy
Water used to lick the bodies of the sick and they were miraculously
cured. This Church was destroy ed in the fifteenth century but today
the Holy Water is still there and continues to heal people. This
phenomenon attracts many Europeans. The newspaper Star writes:
Turkish girls with head scarv es attend the churches, light candles,
and make offerings. They ev en ask for a blessing from the astonished
priest. They v enerate the icons and ask for the intercessions of the
Saints. A ll of these things are forbidden by the teachings of Islam. It
is observ ed that there is a return to the Greek Orthodox churches and
the holy shrines where the Turks find spiritual refuge. The newspaper
Miliet reports that a Turkish may or celebrated piously the memory of
Saint Nektarios in Sily v ria along with many Muslims.
During the last few y ears, the celebration of the Feast of Epiphany has
been allowed by the Turkish authorities. The blessing of the waters
takes place at the Bosporus and the Cross is thrown into the waters.
The Turks are v ery happy about this happening again because the
fishermen thought their catches of fish had become poor because the
Romans (Greeks) were no longer throwing the Cross into the
Bosporus during the Feast of Epiphany . The Turkish newspapers
reported that during this feast a y oung Turkish girl jumped into the
water with all her cloths on in order to retriev e the Cross. She did this
with the Christians. She reported to the newspaper that she wanted to
honor the feast of the Romans (Greeks) and that she would do it again
to receiv e a blessing. The newspaper Huriyet, a paper with the largest
circulation in Turkey , published a few y ears ago that a Turkish
candidate for may or, who was the leader of an Islamic party , asked

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for a blessing from the Orthodox Patriarch. He did this while being in
attendance at the Div ine Liturgy in the Church of the A nnunciation on
the 25th of March. He spoke publicly to the Turkish press about the
holiness of the leader of the Orthodox Church and he offered him a
rose.
Turkish TV channels regularly show programs about the monastic
community of Meteora in Greece, Mistra, Orthodox chanting, and the
liv es of the Saints etc. They present Turkish iconographers and they
report that pilgrims flock to an ancient Christian catacomb outside of
Ankara believ ing that their liv es will be blessed by their pilgrimage.
They light candles in the area where the Christians used to gather.
Outside of A dana, in a catacomb where sev en Christians were
sanctified, y oung Turks gather to incense the area. This again is
strictly forbidden by Islam. These people believ e these areas are holy
because many miracles happen there. In Tarsus, the Church of the
Apostle Paul has become a place of pilgrimage. Here people light
candles, kiss the icons, and drink Holy Water for their health and wellbeing. They consider all these things to be holy . On the 24th of
September, on Princess Island, the people honor Saint George. Tens
of thousands of pilgrims come from all parts of Turkey including old
people. They walk barefooted from the shore where they land and
continue up to the top of the hill where the Church is located. There
they join in a festiv al that is like no other. They make offerings, they
tie sweet cookies on the trees, and they wait in endless lines for fiv e
hours in order to receiv e some Holy Water and to hav e an Orthodox
priest bless them with a Cross. They light candles; they embrace the
icons believ ing in the power of the Cross. The Turks ev en write
literary pieces which say : Constantinople was y our name, with y our
pious people, with y our churches, with y our monasteries, with y our
shrines, with y our icons, with y our monks and angels. Y ou were the
capital of an Empire. Constantinople is y our name.
The author of this article say s: Pay attention to what is happening
here in Turkey . Let those in Greece who war against the Church take
notice."
Sou rce: Fr om th e Lesv i an newspa per Decem ber 25, 2008. Tran sl a ted by Fr.
Con stan ti n e J. Si m ones.

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143 )
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Ma r in a t h e Ma r t y r ( 1 )
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3 )
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T h eolog y ( 6 5 )
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of Lim a sol ( 1 )
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V la ch os ( 9 5 )
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Mesog a ia ( 2 )
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Ka st or ia ( 1 )
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( 575 )
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10 )
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Mot h er s ( 3 )
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25 )
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)
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)
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(9 )
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Na t iv it y a n d Th eoph a n y

( 262 )
Na t iv it y of t h e T h eot ok os
(2 )
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(3 )
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21 )
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)
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Tu r ks ( 6 )
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7 )
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6 )
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3 )
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)
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(1 )
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10 )
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)
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)
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1 68 )
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62 )
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1 )
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)
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14 )
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147 )
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18 )
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1 88 )
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7 )
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99 )
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1 05 )
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Repu blic ( 1 )
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)
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)
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73 )
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1 )
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465 )
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26 )
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)
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(1 )
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A m er ica ( 4 )
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)
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17 )
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G r eece ( 3 0 )
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)
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)
Or t h odox y in Pola n d ( 3 )
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96 )
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431 )
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145 )
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Dodeca n ese ( 1 8 )
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Isla n ds ( 6 )
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Isla n ds ( 2 )
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Spor a des ( 5 )
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T h essa lon ik i ( 2 )
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65 )
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(2 )
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Eu r ope ( 7 2 )
Ot t om a n Occu pa t ion ( 1 1
)

Pa g a n ism a n d t h e New
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5 )
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)
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)
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)
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10 )
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4 )
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)
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)
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)
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A r eopa g it e ( 3 )
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(1 )
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)
St . Nich ola s of My r a ( 4 )
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1 )
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H a g ior it e ( 2 )
St . Nik ola i V elim ir ov ich (
6 )
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Ka v soka ly v a ( 6 )
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)
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3 )
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W on der w or k er ( 4 )
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T h eolog ia n ( 2 )
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2 )
St . T r y ph on t h e Gr ea t
Ma r t y r ( 1 )

St r a n g e ( 3 9 )
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Joh n ( 1 )
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T elev ision a n d Media ( 4 7
)
T elev ision a n d Media . ( 1
)
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T h eodicy /Ev il/Su ffer in g (
89 )
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