Armenian Children’s Home Kids Will Go To Turkey – Newspaper

ARMENIAN CHILDREN’S HOME KIDS WILL GO TO TURKEY – NEWSPAPER

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July 24, 2012 | 06:05

YEREVAN. – The girls at the children’s home in Armenia’s Gavar city
will be taken to Turkey. Aravot daily received such information from
a reader.

“[And] In an interview with us, Gavar Children’s Home Director Nikolay
Nalbandyan did not deny the news. [But] He added that not only girls,
but also boys [and] representatives from the Labor and Social Affairs
Ministry and the Children’s Home’s headship [likewise] are included
in the group that will go.

In his words, ‘this is a cultural and a recreational event. Children
over the ages of twelve will head [to Turkey] for around ten days.’

The Director confessed that the news received a wide resonance, that
there were people who had called 1-02 [Police hotline], and even
people from the Police had come to check the data and the lists of
the children who will go.

Nalbandian assured that the invitation was from the [Armenian]
Patriarchate of Constantinople, with funding by an Armenian-Swedish
organization.

‘Is it bad that thirty children will travel around Western
Armenia-Kars, Ani, HolyCrossChurch, home of [great Armenian poet,
writer, and public activist] Yeghishe Charents, our ancestral lands?’

Also, he said that in the previous years they took Gavar’s children
to Germany, the Netherlands, US, [and] France.

‘It is the Armenian [Deputy] Patriarch [of Constantinople] who
invited. Shall we reject the Armenian Patriarch?'”, Aravot writes.