On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, the newly appointed Ambassador of the Turkish Republic to the USA, Hasan Murat Mercan, visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Mercan, who was accompanied by Ender Saritekin, Head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s Sub-Directorate for America, was received by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and had the opportunity to discuss issues of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, as well as the presence of Orthodoxy in the USA and the multidimensional work of the Holy Archdiocese of America.