{"id":36377,"date":"2015-06-12T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=36377"},"modified":"2015-06-12T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:20:19","slug":"one-of-metropolitans-kidnapped-in-syria-treated-in-ankara-then-returned-to-kidnappers-syrian-mufti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=36377","title":{"rendered":"One of metropolitans kidnapped in Syria treated in Ankara, then returned to kidnappers \u2013 Syrian Mufti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kidnapped_bishops1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36054\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kidnapped_bishops1-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"kidnapped_bishops1\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kidnapped_bishops1-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kidnapped_bishops1.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a title=\"Permanent link to One of metropolitans kidnapped in Syria treated in Ankara, then returned to kidnappers \u2013 Syrian Mufti\" href=\"http:\/\/theorthodoxchurch.info\/blog\/news\/2015\/06\/one-of-metropolitans-kidnapped-in-syria-treated-in-ankara-then-returned-to-kidnappers-syrian-mufti\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">One of metropolitans kidnapped in Syria treated in Ankara, then returned to kidnappers \u2013 Syrian Mufti<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Moscow, June 11, Interfax \u2013 The Supreme Mufti of Syria Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun claims that Turkey is involved in the abduction of two Christian leaders of the Syrian city of Aleppo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWhen I am asked where these people are, I reply: ask Turkish security authorities,\u201d the mufti told a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He said he met a former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, in Damascus a few weeks ago, who told him that when one of the abducted metropolitans had fallen ill, he was treated in Ankara and then returned to his abductors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cAsk the Turkish government, this issue (the metropolitans\u2019 release) is dependent on it,\u201d Hassoun said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He claimed earlier that Turkish secret services were involved in the abduction of these two hierarchs, possibly because of Turkish claims to have the Antiochene See moved from Syria to Turkey and thereby try to put pressure on the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In April 2013 militants of the armed Syrian opposition captured near Aleppo the Patriarch of Antioch John X\u2019s brother Metropolitan Paul of Aleppo and the Syro-Jacobite Metropolitan of Aleppo John-Ibrahim. Their driver, a deacon, was killed. Both were tackling humanitarian problems of the population of the village of Kafr Dael near the Syrian-Turkish border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pravmir.com\/one-of-metropolitans-kidnapped-in-syria-treated-in-ankara-then-returned-to-kidnappers-syrian-mufti\/\">Source:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of metropolitans kidnapped in Syria treated in Ankara, then returned to kidnappers \u2013 Syrian Mufti Moscow, June 11, Interfax \u2013 The Supreme Mufti of Syria Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun claims &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syriac-orthodox-church-of-antioch","category-world-church-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36378,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36377\/revisions\/36378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}