# The Struggle with the Patriarchs in Turkey

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/the-struggle-with-the-patriarchs-in-turkey/
- Published: 1924-05-18T18:50:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T14:46:09+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/baracba-z-patryarchami-u-turcyi.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/borba-s-patriarkhami-v-turtsii.md

> Kemal Pasha has announced that, following the abolition of the caliphate, the Turkish government will abolish the privileges of the Orthodox and Armenian patriarchates and of the chief rabbinate.

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Kemal Pasha, the head of the Turkish government, has declared to foreign journalists that, after the abolition of the Muslim caliphate, the turn will come also of the Orthodox and Armenian-Gregorian patriarchates, and likewise of the Jewish chief rabbinate in Turkey. All the exceptional privileges which religious organizations have enjoyed until now are to be abolished…