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    Lraper Church Bulletin 05/08/2005
    Contact: Deacon Vagharshag Seropyan
    Armenian Patriarchate
    TR-34130 Kumkapi, Istanbul
    T: +90 (212) 517-0970, 517-0971
    F: +90 (212) 516-4833, 458-1365
    [email protected]
    www.lraper.org <http://www.lraper.org/>


    SURP PIRGIC ARMENIAN HOSPITAL PRESS RELEASE

    http://www.lraper.org/main.aspx?Action=DisplayNews
    <http://www.lraper.org/main.aspx?Action=DisplayNews&NewsCode=N0000008 25&
    Lang=ENG> &NewsCode=N000000825&Lang=ENG

    Since there are errors in the reports of some visual and print
    media concerning the individual application made by the Council of
    the Yedikule Surp Pirgic Armenian Hospital to the European Court of
    Human Rights (ECHR), it has become necessary to make the following
    explanation to prevent the public from being misled.

    In the news reports it has been claimed that our foundation "applied to
    the ECHR, saying that the existing legal arrangements for non-Muslim
    religious minority foundations in Turkey to obtain property are
    restricted by the Lausanne Treaty and that this situation is in
    contradiction to the Court's decisions."

    In the Lausanne Treaty there is no agreement whatsoever that restricts
    or prevents minority foundations from obtaining properties, and in
    the application there is nothing mentioned concerning the infringement
    of the rights of minorities in this treaty.

    In 1974 the Supreme Court gave an interpretation without legal
    basis that blocked minority foundations from obtaining properties,
    and therefore our foundation's internal legal avenues were exhausted
    and we lost two renowned properties. For this reason-because of the
    judge's decision which contravenes both the Lausanne Treaty and the
    EHCR and because of the loss of our two properties-our foundation
    used its right in 1998 to apply individually to the EHCR.

    --The Board of Directors of the Yedikule Surp Pirgic Armenian Hospital
    Foundation
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