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HALKI EMERGES AGAIN AS A TEST OF TURKEY’S RELIGIOUS POLITICS
Foreign Affairs May 15, 2026

HALKI EMERGES AGAIN AS A TEST OF TURKEY’S RELIGIOUS POLITICS

A historic sanatorium on Heybeliada — the island also known as Halki — is set to be transferred to the Directorate of Religious Affairs for the second time, after a previous transfer was annulled by a court. The move comes as the same island is at the center of another religious question: the possible reopening of the Greek Orthodox Halki Seminary.

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