{"id":26883,"date":"2010-11-26T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=26883"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:40:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:40:18","slug":"istanbul-hosted-faith-tourism-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/26\/istanbul-hosted-faith-tourism-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Hosted Faith Tourism Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published by Ozgur Tore<\/p>\n

THURSDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2010<\/p>\n

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Istanbul hosted Faith Tourism Summit 2010 which was held in Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center (ICEC) between 23 and 24 November 2010.<\/p>\n

The summit is organized by The Presidency of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Turkey and Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (T\u00dcRSAB) within the framework of “Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECOC) Project”.<\/p>\n

Faith Tourism Summit is organized with the aims of providing sustainability for Istanbul as an essential destination of faith tourism on international basis. The summit confirmed Istanbul as an indispensable center for faith tourism with the participation of representatives from different religions.<\/p>\n

Opening ceremony is attended by Kadir Topba\u015f; Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan, H\u00fcseyin Avni Mutlu; Governor of Istanbul, Prof. Dr. Mehmet S\u00f6nmez; Director of Religious Affairs, Ertugrul G\u00fcnay; Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister, Abdullah G\u00fcl, President of the Republic of Turkey.<\/p>\n

Speakers at the summit include:<\/p>\n

BARTHOLOMEOS I – GREEK ORTHODOX PATRIARCH<\/p>\n

RAV ISAK HALEVA\u00a0– CHIEF RABBI OF TURKEY<\/p>\n

METROPOLIT YUSUF \u00c7ETIN – THE METROPOLITAN, SPIRITUAL HEAD OF ISTANBUL AND ANKARA SYRIAC ORTHODOX COMMUNITIES AND DEPUTY PATRIARCH<\/p>\n

KOREP\u0130SKOPOS YUSUF SA\u011e – CHORBISHOP, DEPUTY PATRIARCH OF THE TURKISH SYRIAC CATHOLIC CHURCH<\/p>\n

JURGEN NEUBARTH – BAYERISCHES PILGERBURO<\/p>\n

PROF. DR. AHMET AKG\u00dcND\u00dcZ – RECTOR & PRESIDENT OF ROTTERDAM ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY<\/p>\n

PROF.DR.VECD\u0130 AKY\u00dcZ – MARMARA UNIVERSITY – FACULTY OF THEOLOGY<\/p>\n

PROF.DR. DR. BERNHARD UHDE – FREIBURG UNIVERSITY – FACULTY OF THEOLOGY<\/p>\n

PROF.DR.MURAT BELGE – \u0130STANBUL B\u0130LG\u0130 UNIVERSITY<\/p>\n

RIZA EP\u0130KMEN- PRESIDENT OF TURCEV<\/p>\n

KEVIN J. WRIGHT – PRESIDENT OF WORLD RELIGIOUS TRAVEL ASSOCIATION<\/p>\n

DEN\u0130Z T\u00dcFEK\u00c7\u0130 – SEVENTUR TRAVEL<\/p>\n

via Focus on Travel News – Istanbul Hosted Faith Tourism Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published by Ozgur Tore THURSDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2010 Istanbul hosted Faith Tourism Summit 2010 which was held in Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center (ICEC) between 23 and 24 November 2010. The summit is organized by The Presidency of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Turkey and Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (T\u00dcRSAB) within the framework […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":26886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}