ArmenPress
March 19 2004
‘CULTURAL GENOCIDE, TURKEY’ EXHIBITION SLATED FOR LATE APRIL
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: A photo exhibition of destructed
Armenian cultural and architectural monuments in the territory of
modern Turkey will open in Yerevan in late April, timed with the
89-th anniversary of the 1915 genocide. Titled “Cultural Genocide,
Turkey”, it will display photos depicting the current and previous
state of hundreds of Armenian monuments in Western Armenia (now
eastern Turkey).
Samvel Karapetian, chairman of a non-governmental organization
studying Armenian architectural monuments, says the exposition is to
show the policy of Turkey, wishing to stand side by side with
civilized EU countries, towards cultural values.