During this past week, His All Holiness Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and all Russia was in Turkey, first meeting with Patriarch Bartholemew, and then with the Prime Minister of Turkey. AOI has an article on the 2nd visit from the Moscow Patriarchate's External Affairs office here.
This comes off of the revelation that there are many more Russian Orthodox Christians living in Turkey than Greek. The Turkish Prime Minister seems much more open to working with the Russian Patriarch than Patriarch Bartholemew. Someone has even brought up the point that in about 50 years, if the trend keeps, the Turkish born Patriarch of Constantinople may actually be Russian.
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