Harsh Message From Athens

He also laid the recognition of universality of the Patriarchate and the opening of Heybeliada Clergy School as conditions for the EU membership of Turkey.

Saying that the Greece should help Turkey to be a European country, that this was in the benefit of both the Europe and the Greece, he claimed that these were not prerequisites but solely the requirements of international law and EU law. Stating that Turks sought to expand to Europe by using their forces in 1571, he stressed that today Turkey wished to become a member of the EU that protected the human rights.