Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
October 31, 2017 Tuesday


Armenian patriarchal locum tenens Archbishop Bekchyan to clarify
upcoming steps – Bagrat Estukyan



YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. Istanbul’s Armenian patriarchal locum
tenens Archbishop Garegin Bekchyan will make certain clarifications
over his future steps today, in the evening of October 31.

Bagrat Estukyan, editor-in-chief of the Armenian language department
of Istanbul’s Agos newspaper, told ARMENPRESS, that Bekchyan is
already in Istanbul, he returned from Germany on October 30.

“As you know, while Bekchyan was not in Istanbul, three members of the
Initiative group engaged in organizing the election of the Armenian
patriarch, have resigned. Archbishop Bekchyan arrived in Istanbul
yesterday evening, but at the moment there is no clarification over
the upcoming steps. Later today Agos colleagues will meet with him in
order to understand what is he thinking about and what steps he will
take”, Bagrat Estukyan said.

While in Germany Archbishop Bekchyan said he wants to personally meet
with the Istanbul Governor to present his views on the process. Asked
whether this still will take place, Estukian said it perhaps will not.