"Ankara’s top government religious official accused Pope Benedict XVI yesterday of “doing injustice to Turkey” by declaring after his historic visit to Turkey last week that the country’s Catholics live under difficult conditions."
“If the pope says Christians in Turkey are mistreated, I will tell him that he has been seriously misinformed,” Bardakoglu told Reuters in an interview published November 24, four days before Benedict arrived.
Sidestepping the rights of Turkey’s Christian citizens, Bardakoglu instead cited his government’s support for places of worship for expatriates living and working in Turkey, according to Reuters."
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