1 Amendments of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2012/2870(RSP)
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the continued implementation of legislation amending the 2008 law on foundations and broadening the scope of the restoration of the property rights of non-Muslim communities; calls on the relevant authorities to assist the Syriac community in clarifying the difficulties faced with property and land registration; calls for a solution for the large number of properties of the Latin Catholic Church which remain confiscated by the State; recalls the urgent need to continue vital and substantial reform in the area of freedom of thought, conscience and religion, in particular by enabling religious communities to obtain legal personality, by eliminating all restrictions on the training, appointment and succession of clergy, by recognising Alevi places of worships and by complying with the relevant judgments of the ECtHR and the recommendations of the Venice Commission; calls on Turkey to ensure that the Saint Gabriel monastery is not deprived of its lands, and that it is protected in its entirety; calls to safeguard the position of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople; therefore calls for a change in legislation and its practical application so that Orthodox priests, bishops and the Patriarch need not be Turkish nationals, especially since the Patriarch is the head of the worldwide Orthodox Church, and calls for returning the property seized from the Patriarchate – especially churches and calls to preserve training of priests and to permit opening the Halki seminary;