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TURKS WOULD DISMANTLE THE MONUMENT TO ARMENIAN-TURKISH FRIENDSHIP EVEN IF IT WAS MICHELANGELO'S SCULPTURE
Alisa Gevorgyan
"Radiolur"
02.05.2011 18:20
"The hand of friendship withdrawn as Turkey and Armenia squabble,"
the British "Independent" writes in an article dedicated to the
dismantling to the monument to Armenian Turkish friendship in Kars.
"A monument built to celebrate friendship between Turkey and Armenia
is being dismantled, in a gesture that shows how much an attempted
rapprochement between the two nations has stalled," the British
paper writes.
According to architect Levon Tokmajyan, the monument was of no
cultural value, but Turks would have behaved the same way even if
it was Michelangelo's sculpture, since it is the requirement of
contemporary Turkish politics.
The statue, in the eastern Turkish city of Kars, depicts two figures
emerging from a single mass, signifying common ground between nations
with a bitter and difficult history, and was commissioned in 2006 to
commemorate cautiously improving ties between them.
From: A. Papazian
Alisa Gevorgyan
"Radiolur"
02.05.2011 18:20
"The hand of friendship withdrawn as Turkey and Armenia squabble,"
the British "Independent" writes in an article dedicated to the
dismantling to the monument to Armenian Turkish friendship in Kars.
"A monument built to celebrate friendship between Turkey and Armenia
is being dismantled, in a gesture that shows how much an attempted
rapprochement between the two nations has stalled," the British
paper writes.
According to architect Levon Tokmajyan, the monument was of no
cultural value, but Turks would have behaved the same way even if
it was Michelangelo's sculpture, since it is the requirement of
contemporary Turkish politics.
The statue, in the eastern Turkish city of Kars, depicts two figures
emerging from a single mass, signifying common ground between nations
with a bitter and difficult history, and was commissioned in 2006 to
commemorate cautiously improving ties between them.
From: A. Papazian