{"id":27386,"date":"2010-11-30T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27386"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:48:51","slug":"greek-patriarchate-reclaims-istanbul-orphanage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/30\/greek-patriarchate-reclaims-istanbul-orphanage\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Patriarchate reclaims Istanbul orphanage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; Daily News with wires<\/p>\n<p>The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate reclaimed the 19th-century orphanage on B\u00fcy\u00fckada. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINI\u015eIK<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27389\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27389\" title=\"The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate reclaimed the 19th-century orphanage on B\u00fcy\u00fckada. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINI\u015eIK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/greek-patriarchate-reclaims-princes8217-islands-orphanage-2010-11-29_l.jpg\" alt=\"The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate reclaimed the 19th-century orphanage on B\u00fcy\u00fckada. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINI\u015eIK\" width=\"414\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/greek-patriarchate-reclaims-princes8217-islands-orphanage-2010-11-29_l.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/greek-patriarchate-reclaims-princes8217-islands-orphanage-2010-11-29_l-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate reclaimed the 19th-century orphanage on B\u00fcy\u00fckada. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINI\u015eIK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate reclaimed the 19th-century orphanage on B\u00fcy\u00fckada, the largest of the Prince\u2019s Islands at Marmara Sea, on Monday after it was granted back to the community by the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey took control of the building in 1997, many years after it was abandoned, on the grounds that it belonged to another foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The European court, however, ruled in June that the land was registered to the Patriarchate, giving it de facto legal status to the building. Turkey was also ordered to pay 6,000 euros in compensation and 20,000 euros in court fees.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriarchate\u2019s lawyer, Cem Sofuo\u011flu, received the land title after paying a fee of 150 Turkish Liras to the Princes\u2019 Islands Land Registry Office to deliver it to the patriarch.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Ministry issued an official statement on the transfer, saying, \u201cThere is no alternative but to register the orphanage to the Fener Greek Patriarchate\u2019s records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting that both the Foreign Ministry and the Justice Ministry played a significant role in securing the outcome, Sofuo\u011flu said Turkey had stood by its signed commitment in the European Court of Human Rights and carried out the court\u2019s decision in a period of three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; Daily News with wires The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate reclaimed the 19th-century orphanage on B\u00fcy\u00fckada. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINI\u015eIK The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate reclaimed the 19th-century orphanage on B\u00fcy\u00fckada, the largest of the Prince\u2019s Islands at Marmara Sea, on Monday after it was granted back to the community by the European Court of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":27389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[2738,4371],"class_list":["post-27386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-greeks","tag-greeks-in-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27386","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=27386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}