Markar Esayan, an Armenian MP from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has announced about the construction of an Assyrian church in the country.
“The first church from scratch in the history of the [Turkish] Republic will be built in Yeşilköy [district of Istanbul] by our Assyrian brothers,” Esayan wrote on Twitter. “This became possible with the will and close follow-up of our President [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan.”