Turkey: Video explores multicultural Istanbul

Turkey's Communication Directorate shared a video on social media Tuesday that showed Jewish, Greek, Armenian and Assyrian communities living together with Muslim Turks in Istanbul.

"Under the leadership of our President [Recep Tayyip Erdogan], and with knowledge of being 'Altogether Turkey,' we have taken unprecedented steps to realize the principle of equal citizenship and protect our nation's cultural and religious diversity," the head of Communications Directorate Fahrettin Altun said in the Greek language in the video.

Alexia Kotam, a Greek, said his best friend is a Turk and “sometimes we should wonder about something. Both sides should have curiosity about each other.”

In the last 15 to 20 years, increased efforts to increase and to keep alive multicultural, multilingual and a multireligious structure in Turkey is gratifying, she said.