Archbishop Iakovos of America was born on the island of Imvros, Ottoman Empire on July 29, 1911. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_Iakovos_of_America
In 1964 Turkish prime minister İsmet İnönü renounced the 1930 Greek-Turkish Treaty of friendship and took actions against the Greek minority. Greeks were given a week to leave Istanbul. Deportees protested that it was impossible to sell businesses or personal property in so short a time. Most of those deported were born in Turkey and they had no place to go in Greece.
In 1965 the Turkish government established on Imbros an open agricultural prison for Turkish mainland convicts.
In 1972, Iakovos would not be permitted to enter Turkey, he was an ex-Turkish citizen who had been stripped of his citizenship.
A supporter of civil rights, Archbishop Iakovos was one of the few prominent non-African American clergymen—and the only Church leader—who had the courage to walk hand in hand with Martin Luther King Jr. during the famous march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.
I came to the United States from Turkey, where I was a third category citizen. So when Martin Luther King Jr. had his walk to the courthouse of Selma, Alabama, I decided to join him because, I said, this is my turn to take revenge against all those who oppress people….I know that civil rights continues to be the most throny issue in our nation, but I will stand for both civil and human rights as long as I live. I feel it’s the Christian duty and the duty of a man who was born as a slave.
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