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US HOUSE RESOLUTION 306 IS A SMALL STEP IN POSITIVE DIRECTION - ISTANBUL-ARMENIAN WEEKLY EDITOR
news.am
Dec 14 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - H.Res.306, which passed at the US House of Representatives,
is a small step in the positive direction, Istanbul's Agos Armenian
weekly's Armenian section editor Sarkis Seropyan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am, commenting on the religious freedom measure, which
calls upon Turkey to return the Christian church properties.
In Seropyan's words, this concerns the properties that were seized
from the churches after the 1970s, and which must be either returned
or compensated.
"We are talking about church properties in the cities, and not about
all churches in Anatolia. A petition must be made in order for them
to be returned, and, if they find that they were unlawfully taken,
only then will the homes [and] estates belonging to the churches
be returned. And if other buildings are constructed in their place,
they must be compensated," Sarkis Seropyan noted.
news.am
Dec 14 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - H.Res.306, which passed at the US House of Representatives,
is a small step in the positive direction, Istanbul's Agos Armenian
weekly's Armenian section editor Sarkis Seropyan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am, commenting on the religious freedom measure, which
calls upon Turkey to return the Christian church properties.
In Seropyan's words, this concerns the properties that were seized
from the churches after the 1970s, and which must be either returned
or compensated.
"We are talking about church properties in the cities, and not about
all churches in Anatolia. A petition must be made in order for them
to be returned, and, if they find that they were unlawfully taken,
only then will the homes [and] estates belonging to the churches
be returned. And if other buildings are constructed in their place,
they must be compensated," Sarkis Seropyan noted.