Tsipras from Halki: Hellenism was injured, persecuted and decimated but did not lose its roots
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"It is great joy and honour for me, being here with you today," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday in his speech at the Theological School of Halki, situated on the second-largest of the Princes' Islands off the Turkish coast, in the Sea of Marmara.
Tsipras said that he felt blessed to be able to visit "the most important monuments of Hellenism and Orthodoxy, here in Istanbul; monuments of world cultural heritage that belong to all mankind, ecumenical monuments."
"But we do not overlook the fact that they are monuments of Hellenism, of Hellenism and of a Greek community, a Greek and Orthodox minority, here in Istanbul, which has had great difficulties. It was injured, persecuted and decimated but did not lose its roots. It may look like the trunk of a wounded tree, but the roots are there, they breathe and are still here," he added.
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