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Aysor, Armenia
Sept 19 2010
K. Manoyan. "Liturgy should be served 365 days in a year'
The head of the Armenian Cause Office Giro Manoyan who was present on
the rally held in the Genocide Victims Memorial recorded that the
Turkish authorities restoring the church, turned it into a museum,
allowing the liturgy to be served once in a year.
"Our protest is for serving a liturgy on every single day of the year
in the Armenian Church," he said to journalists.
The participants of the rally, the majority of which are young people
announce words of shame and criticism addressed to the Turkish
authorities.
As Giro Manoyan noted, the Turks turned the Aghtamar's Holy Cross
Church issue into a " problem of installing and not installing the
cross' for the people to lose the main problem of the issue, which is
the international obligation of returning the Armenian Church to the
Armenian community.
Speaking about the publications in foreign press about the ceremony to
be held in the Holy Cross (Surb Khach) Church Manoyan noted that
although Turkey wished to present it as an expression of a goodwill
towards the Armenian people the press is making a rather objective
assessment to the Turkish government's policy.
"If at first it was presented by the international press as an
expression of a goodwill of Turkish government, later the press
realized that the problem is in avoiding from international
responsibility," Manoyan stated.
The ARF member said that Lausanne Treaty of in 1923 clearly indicates
that not only should the cultural heritage of the Christian
communities be protected, but it should be handed to the Christians,
which, in fact, has not been kept by Turkey.
From: A. Papazian
Sept 19 2010
K. Manoyan. "Liturgy should be served 365 days in a year'
The head of the Armenian Cause Office Giro Manoyan who was present on
the rally held in the Genocide Victims Memorial recorded that the
Turkish authorities restoring the church, turned it into a museum,
allowing the liturgy to be served once in a year.
"Our protest is for serving a liturgy on every single day of the year
in the Armenian Church," he said to journalists.
The participants of the rally, the majority of which are young people
announce words of shame and criticism addressed to the Turkish
authorities.
As Giro Manoyan noted, the Turks turned the Aghtamar's Holy Cross
Church issue into a " problem of installing and not installing the
cross' for the people to lose the main problem of the issue, which is
the international obligation of returning the Armenian Church to the
Armenian community.
Speaking about the publications in foreign press about the ceremony to
be held in the Holy Cross (Surb Khach) Church Manoyan noted that
although Turkey wished to present it as an expression of a goodwill
towards the Armenian people the press is making a rather objective
assessment to the Turkish government's policy.
"If at first it was presented by the international press as an
expression of a goodwill of Turkish government, later the press
realized that the problem is in avoiding from international
responsibility," Manoyan stated.
The ARF member said that Lausanne Treaty of in 1923 clearly indicates
that not only should the cultural heritage of the Christian
communities be protected, but it should be handed to the Christians,
which, in fact, has not been kept by Turkey.
From: A. Papazian