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  • Some Armenian Historic Houses In Mus To Be Protected By State

    SOME ARMENIAN HISTORIC HOUSES IN MUS TO BE PROTECTED BY STATE

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/730994/some-armenian-historic-houses-in-mu%C5%9F-to-be-protected-by-state.html
    16:30, 29 August, 2013

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 29, ARMENPRESS: The 3-5 stable houses, which
    remained after the destruction of the Armenian houses in the Kale
    District of MuĊ~_ Province, are possible to be taken under the state
    protection. As reported by Armenpress, this was stated by the Turkish
    aykiridogrular.com News website.

    According to the website, the Ministry of Tourism and Culture
    of Turkey has developed a project, which aims at reconstructing
    the abovementioned Armenian houses and take them under the state
    protection.

    As earlier was reported by the Turkish media, in the framework of the
    urban renewal project the Housing Development Administration of Turkey
    (TOKI) intends to build 864 residential houses and 107 offices in
    the place of the Armenian houses in the Kale District of MuĊ~_. The
    TOKI has agreed with the 85% of the local population to carry out the
    reconstruction works on the territory of about 60,000 square meters.

    Many of the local population, living in the Kale District of
    MuĊ~_ Province, refuse to take the money suggested by the Housing
    Development Administration of Turkey and leave their houses. The
    TOKI representatives announced that in any case they will demolish
    the houses and if the population does not leave voluntarily, their
    goods as well will remain under ruins.

    An electronic signature collection has been organized against the
    demolition of the historical Armenian houses in the MuĊ~_ Province, the
    initiators of which appealed to join them and prohibit the devastation
    of the last Armenian historical tracks in MuĊ~_. "Armenians, Greeks
    and Assyrians are being subjected to genocide. The process, launched
    by the genocide in 1915, is currently continuing as a cultural and
    economic genocide. To kill a culture means to kill the mankind. It
    is a historical genocide", - says the statement.

    The confiscation of properties of minority foundations dates back to
    the early days of the Turkish Republic. The 1936 Law on Foundations,
    known as the 1936 Declaration, ordered all foundations to submit a
    property declaration listing immovable and other properties owned by
    each and every foundation. Following the death of the nation's founder
    Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, those property declarations were forgotten.

    When the Cyprus problem escalated in the 1970s, the General
    Directorate of Foundations asked non-Muslim foundations to resubmit
    their regulations. Yet those foundations did not have such regulations
    because of a practice during the Ottoman Empire where such foundations
    could only be established by individual decrees of the sultan of the
    day. After receiving a negative response from these foundations, the
    General Directorate of Foundations made a ruling that the declarations
    of 1936 would be considered their regulation. Unless these declarations
    did not carry a special provision entitling the foundation to acquire
    immovable property, the General Directorate expropriated all immovable
    property acquired after 1936.These expropriation acts were in violation
    of both the Lausanne agreement and property rights.

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