Will Ankara take aim at Patriarch Bartholomew? [Unpublished]

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17-08-2016 (updated: 31-08-2016 )

Patriarch Batholomew [youtube.com]

NOTE: EURACTIV has unpublished this article following confirmation that the author was a fake. We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused at a challenging time for Turkey and have taken measures to strengthen our internal processes as a consequence.

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One response to “Will Ankara take aim at Patriarch Bartholomew? [Unpublished]”

theasp says:

26/08/2016 at 22:41

This article is a fabrication. Ambassador Hughes did not write it. EURACTIV apparently copied it from a Msocw-based website known as Orientalresearch.org Oriental research has admitted that it accepted the submission without verifying that Ambassador Hughes was indeed the author. It has since dropped the article from its website.
Following is Ambassador Hughes’ statement:

“On August 16, 2016, an organization known as Oriental Review, http://www.orientalreview.org, placed on its website an article concerning the Patriarch of Constantinople and attributed it to me. I can state categorically that I did not write this article, contribute it to Oriental Review, nor do I have any knowledge of the statements alleged in the article. Mr. Andrey Fomin, Founding Editor of Oriental Review, has acknowledged by email that they did not verify whether I in fact had sent the article, expressed regret and removed it from their website. Despite my repeated requests to Mr. Fomin, Oriental Review has not posted a statement indicating that the article in question and my alleged authorship were indeed a fabrication.

Arthur H. Hughes
United States Ambassador (Retired)”

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Will Ankara take aim at Patriarch Bartholomew? [Unpublished]

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