Turkey’s Erdoğan orders talks to reopen Orthodox Christian seminary, a focus for Trump

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ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered officials ​on Sunday to resume talks on reopening an Orthodox Christian seminary near Istanbul, an issue raised by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is ⁠expected to visit Ankara next month for a NATO summit. The Halki seminary, founded in 1844 and shut by the Turkish state in 1971, played a central role in ⁠the Eastern Orthodox Church as ​the Ecumenical ⁠Patriarchate’s main theological school. It trained generations of Orthodox clergy,

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