ECCLESIASTICAL CEREMONY IN SURB KHACH ARMENIAN CHURCH IS ANOTHER SHOW OF TURKEY

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 21, 2010 – 17:10 AMT 12:10 GMT

Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, historian Hayk
Demoyan said that the ecclesiastical ceremony due September 19 in Surb
Khach Armenian Church on Akhtamar island is another show of Turkey.

The Turkish authorities, who have not set a cross on the church yet,
continue violating provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne signed in 1923,
Demoyan told a press conference in Yerevan.

~SSurb Arakelots Armenian temple of the 10th century has been
transferred into a mosque. I would prefer the Turkish authorities to
restore this temple instead of organizing an ecclesiastical ceremony in
Surb Khach church,~T said Demoyan. He added that it would be right if
Armenia refrains from sending an official delegation for participation
in the ceremony in Surb Khach church.

From: A. Papazian