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Mus Municipality launched Armenian houses demolition process
http://armenpress.am/eng/print/726799/mus-municipality-launched-armenian-houses-demolition-process.html
14:07, 20 July, 2013
YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS: The Turkey's Mus Municipality, touching
upon the constant talks on the demolition of the Armenian
houses, made an announcement, once again rejecting that the houses
belong to the Armenians. As reported by Armenpress, this
was published by the Turkish Haberler.com. The media published a
video, where the ruined houses are shown in Kale District of Mus.
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 Mus. 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 Mus
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.
A resident of the Kale District stated that they do not want to leave
their houses, which have a history of 148 years. He said that he
applied
to many corresponding bodies not to demolish his house. `I told them
that my house is a historical value and I do not want it to be
demolished. My house costs millions but they offer me a several-rooms
apartment in its place'. The resident told that the employees of the
Municipality sounded threats in his address if he does not leave the house.
An electronic signature collection has been organized against the
demolition of the historical Armenian houses in the Mus Province, the
initiators of which appealed to join them and prohibit the devastation
of the last Armenian historical tracks in Mus. `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 Atatürk, 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 righ
From: A. Papazian
http://armenpress.am/eng/print/726799/mus-municipality-launched-armenian-houses-demolition-process.html
14:07, 20 July, 2013
YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS: The Turkey's Mus Municipality, touching
upon the constant talks on the demolition of the Armenian
houses, made an announcement, once again rejecting that the houses
belong to the Armenians. As reported by Armenpress, this
was published by the Turkish Haberler.com. The media published a
video, where the ruined houses are shown in Kale District of Mus.
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 Mus. 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 Mus
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.
A resident of the Kale District stated that they do not want to leave
their houses, which have a history of 148 years. He said that he
applied
to many corresponding bodies not to demolish his house. `I told them
that my house is a historical value and I do not want it to be
demolished. My house costs millions but they offer me a several-rooms
apartment in its place'. The resident told that the employees of the
Municipality sounded threats in his address if he does not leave the house.
An electronic signature collection has been organized against the
demolition of the historical Armenian houses in the Mus Province, the
initiators of which appealed to join them and prohibit the devastation
of the last Armenian historical tracks in Mus. `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 Atatürk, 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 righ
From: A. Papazian