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<title>Urging Turkey to respect the rights and religious freedoms of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.</title>
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<action-date>2018-02-07</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Calls on Turkey to: (1) eliminate all forms of discrimination, particularly those based on race or religion, and grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition and ecclesiastic succession; (2) safeguard religious and human rights; (3) respect international law, European Union laws, and the basic tenets of human rights; and (4) prove that it is ready to meet the criteria set forth by the Copenhagen European Council prior to its accession into the European Union.</p>]]></summary-text>
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