“Agreement” between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ankara over the issue of the Halki Seminary existed in 2000, according to the man who met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in May that year to negotiate the matter.
“Batholomew had agreed and was pleased”, said Kemal Giouruz, who then held the position of president of the Turkish Council for Higher Education.
Giouruz had been authorised in 2000 by the then Turkish president, Suleiman Demirel. The meeting between the two men took place at a centrally located hotel in Ankara and concluded, said the former high-ranking official, with a solution for the Greek Orthodox theological school at Halki.
(source: voice of greece)
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