Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), Syriac (Assyrian) Orthodox Patriarch Yusuf Cetin (L) and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I (R) – August 3, 2019.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), Syriac (Assyrian) Orthodox Patriarch Yusuf Cetin (L) and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I (R) pose during the first stone ceremony of Turkey’s first church in the modern history of the modern Republic in Istanbul’s Yesilkoy district, on August 3, 2019. – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on August 3 laid a stone for Turkey’s first new church in the history of the modern Republic during a groundbreaking ceremony in Istanbul. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)