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ANKARA \u2014 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan ordered officials \u200bon Sunday to resume talks on reopening an Orthodox Christian seminary near Istanbul, an issue raised by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is \u2060expected to visit Ankara next month for a NATO summit.<\/p>\n

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The Halki seminary, founded in 1844 and shut by the Turkish state in 1971, played a central role in \u2060the Eastern Orthodox Church as \u200bthe Ecumenical \u2060Patriarchate\u2019s main theological school. It trained generations of Orthodox clergy, including the current patriarch Bartholomew, \u2060who is based in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

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Trump raised the issue \u200bin \u2060talks with Erdo\u011fan in \u200cWashington last year. Muslim and secular Turkey has long faced pressure from Greece, the United States and European \u200cUnion to reopen the theological school \u200con Heybeliada island near Istanbul. Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, whose diocese covers Istanbul, said the issue had entered a \u201cnew phase\u201d after Erdo\u011fan instructed \u2060Turkey\u2019s higher education authority, to continue discussions with the Patriarchate\u2019s committee.<\/p>\n

Although there is no timetable yet for the reopening of the school, Metropolitan Emmanuel said: \u201cFor the Patriarchate, after decades of inaction, the water has entered the trough,\u201d signaling that institutional work has begun.<\/p>\n

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Emmanuel added \u200cthat both sides still needed to complete renovation \u200bwork on the building complex and agree \u200con the legal and educational \u2060framework under which it would operate.<\/p>\n

The Halki seminary \u2060was closed in 1971 following a Constitutional Court ruling that private \u200chigher education \u200binstitutions must be affiliated with \u200cstate universities, a requirement rejected \u200bby the Patriarchate.<\/p>\n

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