Sul sito www.turkishdailynews.com.tr ho trovato questo articolo di Mustafa Akyol, del 2 febbraio:
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/a...?enewsid=95373
Casomai il link non dovesse funzionare, cito un passo:
The story goes back to Turkey's War of Liberation, when Turks and Greeks were at war. At the time, the traditional Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, which to date calls itself “Ecumenical Patriarchate,” looked as if it was content with the occupation of Anatolia by Greek forces. The ecumenical patriarchate debate is a seperate story in itself. Some Orthodox Christians in Anatolia were rather pro-Turkish and one among them, Pavlos Karahisarithis, established the “Autocephalous (Independent) Orthodox Patriarchate of Anatolia” in 1921 in Kayseri, to support the Turkish national struggle. General Mustafa Kemal, unsurprisingly, liked this unorthodox orthodoxy, and after winning the war, he favored them over the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate.
In 1924 Karahisarithis, who later changed his name into Zeki Erenerol, called a Turkish ecclesial congress that elected him “Papa (Patriarch) Eftim”. He and his family members were exempted from the population exchange between Turkey and Greece and were given official support — which included valuable real estate in Istanbul.
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