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29 March 2011, Turkey: His Holiness the Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka Iwas started a three-day official visit to the Turkish government in Ankara. Accompanied the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church of the Metropolitan Mor Gregorios Hanna Ibrahim of Aleppo, Mor Philoxenos Mattias Nayis, Secretary of the Patriarch of Syria, Mor Philoxenos Yusuf Cetin of Istanbul and Ankara and Mor Timotheos Samuel Aktas of Tur Abdin, together with the Diocesan Council Presidents of the two dioceses in Turkey, and the chairman of the foundation of the monastery Mor Gabriel monastery Kuryakus Ergün and attorneys Rudi Sümer.

According to information of the abbot of the monastery Mor Augin Yokin Unfal from the monastery of Mor Gabriel over Suryoyo Online meets the Patriarch and his delegation on Wednesday (30.03.2011), together with the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan in Ankara Receb Tayib. The focus of the Patriarch's visit is a conversation with the Turkish government on the current situation threatening the Syrians in Turkey, namely the expropriation of the lands of the monastery Mor Gabriel in Tur Abdin by the Turkish state.

After the verdict in January and February 2011 said the highest court in Ankara, Turkey 24.4 hectares of the Treasury and other 27.6 acres of monastery land to the Forest Service. Evidence such as government land titles pushed the court simply ignored and not appreciated. The Turkish state and three neighboring Muslim villages brought four lawsuits against the monastery. The criminal trial against the president of the Foundation monastery is still open. Such government measures to intimidate the Christian Arameans in Turkey. The Southeast Anatolian region of Malatya to the Syrian and Iraqi border are of the Aramaic original inhabitants almost entirely free. Only 3,000 people in the Tur Abdin remain. Thus, their churches and monasteries were gone.

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The Western Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, providing spiritual guidance and leadership to the Syriac Orthodox community, is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, tax-exempt organization comprised of 10 churches and parishes in 17 western states. It was established in 1952 as the Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church encompassing the entire United States and Canada. In November 1995 by the Holy Synod, the Western Archdiocese was formed to exclusively serve the 17 states of the western half United States.

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