Turkish Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan had a meeting on Tuesday with Jakup Krasniqi, the parliament speaker of Kosovo, who is visiting the capital Ankara.
Krasniqi said he would like to thank Turkey and Turkish people for their support to his country.
In his part, Krasniqi said a total of 53 countries have recognized his country so far and he expected Turkey to exert efforts in regard to recognition of Kosovo also by Islamic countries.
Toptan said in the meeting that Turkey had sound cultural and historical ties with Kosovo.
I believe that historical tie was called a caliphate, and here is a Kosovo-Turkey cultural commonality:
ISTANBUL, December 15 (Compass Direct News) – In the city of Samsun on the north coast of Turkey, the beleaguered congregation of the Agape Church Association struggles against local Islamic hostility toward its presence. In the last three years Agape church members have endured false allegations and verbal abuse from Muslim and nationalist locals. Their pastor has received death threats, and their building has been vandalized, all in an attempt to stop the 30 or so Christians from meeting.
Local authorities have also had their part in opposition to the church, threatening it with legal action based on spurious charges. The church was threatened with a lawsuit because members had hung verses of Scripture and a cross on the walls. The Provincial Directorate of Associations inspected the building and told them to remove the offending articles because their rented rooms looked too much like a church.
It was this sort of harassment that led the Alliance of Protestant Churches of Turkey (TEK) to write a report on the unfounded obstacles and challenges facing Christian congregations wishing to construct or reclassify church buildings. “The process of becoming a place of worship, although legally possible, is in practice almost impossible,” said a member of the TEK’s legal committee.”
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