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  • Diyarbakir's Sourp Giragos Church Hosts Armenian Culture Event

    DIYARBAKIR'S SOURP GIRAGOS CHURCH HOSTS ARMENIAN CULTURE EVENT

    June 13, 2013 - 11:38 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - An evening of music and poetry was held at Sourp
    Giragos Church in Diyarbakir/Dikranagerd on June 11, 2013, The Armenian
    Weekly said.

    The event, attended by more than a thousand people, featured Kurdish
    musicians Tara Jaff and Pervin Cakar who performed Kurdish and Armenian
    songs, and poet Azad Ziya Eren.

    In a conversation with The Armenian Weekly correspondent, Harpist and
    singer Tara Jaff, who is from Iraqi Kurdistan, said she first learned
    about the genocide of Armenians and other minorities as a child,
    from his father. She deepened her knowledge of the Armenian Genocide
    after escaping from Saddam Hussein's Iraq and settling in England,
    she added. Jaff noted that the purpose of holding the concert at
    Sourp Giragos is to keep the Armenian issue in the forefront in Turkey.

    In turn, Pervin Cakar, who performed Armenian folk songs, noted how
    proud and honored she feels to be performing in the renovated Sourp
    Giragos Church.

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