Turkey vehemently criticized Congress on June 27 over a bill demanding that the country return confiscated Christian churches.
Legislation requiring the State Department to report on the status of “stolen, confiscated or otherwise unreturned” churches and other Christian properties in Turkey and northern Cyprus sailed through the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a voice-vote June 26. Turkey wasted no time in denouncing what it called the bill’s “groundless criticism, false information and baseless accusations” and accused lawmakers of caving to ethnic lobbies.
