The Halki seminary, founded in 1844 and shut by the Turkish state in 1971, played a central role in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Turkey plans to allow the reopening, after more than 50 years, of a historic Greek Orthodox religious seminary in a move partly designed to please US President Donald Trump, a…

ANKARA — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ordered officials on Sunday to resume talks on reopening an Orthodox Christian seminary near Istanbul, an...