RED CRESCENT CHAIRMAN VISITS ARMENIAN SCHOOL
Hurriyet Daily News
May 15 2012
Turkey
Red Crescent chairman Akar (R) visited meets students at Levon
Vartuhyan. AA photo The Turkish Red Crescent extended food assistance
to an Armenian nursery and primary school in Istanbul yesterday.
Turkish Red Crescent chairman Ahmet Lutfi Akar visited private Levon
Vartuhyan Armenian Nursery and Primary School in Istanbul’s Topkapı
neighborhood and extended assistance consisting of 100 consignments
of food.
“The Turkish Red Crescent is an organization that extends help without
making religious, linguistic or racial discrimination. We will continue
to meet needs of Levon Vartuhyan Armenian Nursery and Primary School
periodically from now on,” Akar said.
Monik Ergan, the chairman of the Surp Nigogayos Armenian Church
Foundation to which the nursery and primary school are connected,
said they did not want to close the school and they were making
efforts to keep it open. Ergan also said almost 100 students were
being educated at the school.
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