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Poor Man's Vatican Faces Turbulent Turkey
Athenagoras I, 84, head of the world’s Orthodox Church, maintains the Istanbul patriarchate in a fragile Turkish state. The building on the Golden Horn has been called the “poor man’s Vatican” as tensions with Greece persist over Cyprus and national history.
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Vatican
Ankara
Turkey
Istanbul
Golden Horn
Ecumenical Patriarch of
Constantinople
Athenagoras I
Austria
Greece
Cyprus
Mehmet the Conqueror
Ottoman Empire
Germany
Kemal Ataturk
Ismet Inonu
Britain
Curzon
Foreign Ministry
NATO
Moscow
Europe
Athenagoras
Patriarchate