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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9227

7 July 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/cyprus/turkey
EP calls for Northern Cyprus' religious heritage to be protected and speaks of accession talks with Ankara

Strasbourg, 06/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 6 July, the European Parliament adopted a written declaration presented by two members of the EPP-ED Group, Iles Braghetto of Italy and Panayotis Demetriou of Greece, who stressed the need to protect and preserve the religious heritage of Northern Cyprus where, since 1974, over 200 churches, chapels and monasteries have been desecrated, converted into mosques, used as depots (usually military), hospitals and stockyards. MEPs state that...

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