The Caliphate, the Patriarchate and Heybeliada Seminary

The men who overthrew your caliphate could not touch the Patriarchate.

The Patriarchate is also a caliphate; it is the leader of a denomination of Christianity.

Those who closed your madrasas did not close the seminary on Heybeliada.

We could give many more examples. But what happened?

This nation is such that its religion and nationality have become like the two sides of the same cloth.

They cannot be said to be separate from one another.

Therefore, when it lacks strength it cannot resist; it withdraws inward, retreats, cries, and moans.

But like a fire beneath the ashes, it preserves its faith.

And it did so. And this faith is being preserved today.