Famous Armenian singer to perform in Turkey

Famous Armenian singer to perform in Turkey

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May 05, 2012 | 04:44

YEREVAN. – Armenia’s renowned recording artist Nune Yesayan will head
to Turkey to take part in a May 11 benefit concert organized by the
Istanbul Armenian community. The singer herself told this to Armenian
News-NEWS.am. She noted that it will be her solo concert and the
Armenian community had invited her with the objective of helping out a
local Armenian school.

To the question as to why she agreed to go to Turkey and whether she
has any fears, she responded: `Why should I not have agreed? The
Armenian community invited me and I am going for them. I have no
fears. The Armenians will meet me; we will be with the Armenians. They
are not savages; what are they supposed to do?’

Incidentally, Nune Yesayan is heading to Turkey on a concert for the
first time. She had received an earlier invitation from Hrant Dink – the
founder and former chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual
weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building – ;
they had `talked, but it was left incomplete.’ Yesayan also noted that
she is happy to be going to the concert and she will definitely visit
Dink’s grave.