SURB KHACH ARMENIAN CHURCH HAS BECOME ANKARA’S BASIC PROPAGANDISTIC WEAPON
PanARMENIAN.Net
July 23, 2010 – 14:54 AMT 09:54 GMT
Turkologist Ruben Melkonyan said that Surb Khach Armenian church of
Akhtamar island has become Ankara’s basic propagandistic weapon.
Surb Khach church is registered in Turkey as a museum-monument, what
excludes the possibility of setting a cross on it, Melkonyan told a
press conference in Yerevan.
“Turkey displays its peacefulness to the world, through destroying
thousands of Armenian churches, temples and cultural monuments and
restoring only one church. This policy fits in the propagandistic
arsenal of the Turkish diplomacy. They want to gain certain concessions
from Armenia through it,” concluded the expert.
From: A. Papazian
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