ARMENIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN TURKEY LEFT TO ITS FATE
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Sept 16 2011
Armenia
DIYARBAKIR. – Restoration at the Armenian Catholic church in
Diyarbakir, Turkey, which had commenced 3 years ago, is not completed
and the church is left to its fate.
Aziz Tohumcu, the owner of a booth nearby the church and the person
who assumed the care of the 16th-Century church, said already 1 year
has passed since any construction was carried out in the church. “This
scene disturbs my conscience, and that’s why I voluntarily supervise
the church during the day, so that no one would damage it. If I don’t
supervise, the drug addicts and prostitutes would gather here while
the robbers would clean up, in one day, the construction tools in
the church and its planks,” Tohumcu said, noting that it is the
construction tools in the church yard that actually welcome the
church’s visitors, Diyarbakirhaber news agency informs.
In his turn, manager of the company that was restoring the church
noted that the project was not completed between 2008 and 2009,
and therefore the restoration was postponed.
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