Erdogan lays stone for modern Turkey's first new church

ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday laid the foundation stone for the first new church in Turkey since it became a modern republic in 1923.

Syriac Christians are part of the eastern Christian tradition and pray in Aramaic, which Jesus is believed to have spoken. He had ordered the Istanbul metropolitan municipality to find space for the building in 2009 while he was prime minister.It is being built on land belonging to the Latin Catholic Church and which is part of an Italian cemetery, the head of the Beyoglu Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox Church Foundation in Istanbul, Sait Susin, said.

Christian minorities including Armenians have also complained of being treated as second-class citizens in the Muslim-majority country.But Erdogan sought to extend a hand to other communities in the country of 82 million, saying"don't forget, this country, this state belongs to everyone".

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