ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians was given back the deed to a historic building in a move hailed as a symbolic but important victory for the formerly dominant church in Turkey.
The Turkish government on Monday returned control of the 19th-century orphanage, one of the largest wooden buildings in the world, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople after a ruling for the church in the European Court of Human Rights.
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