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    TURKEY RETURNING LAND TO SYRIAC MONASTERY

    October 8, 2013 - 16:11 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey is returning a 12-acre parcel of land
    that belongs to a Syriac monastery which was seized from Mardin's
    Syriac community in 2005 by the Treasury, a move that came after the
    government launched landmark reforms as part of a democratization
    package in a bid to extend the democratic rights of certain social
    and religious groups, Today's Zaman reports.

    Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arınc said on Monday, Oct 7, that the
    Directorate General for Foundations (VGM) had agreed to return the
    land that belongs to the Mor Gabriel Monastery, ending an extended
    saga over the property rights of the Syriac community regarding the
    monastery and its surrounding area.

    Last year, Turkey's Aramean (Syriac) community was disappointed
    by a Supreme Court of Appeals rejection of a plea to overturn an
    earlier judgment that gave the land of the Mor Gabriel Monastery to
    the Treasury.

    The conflict over Mor Gabriel began when land officials for the
    Turkish government redrew the boundaries around the monastery and
    surrounding villages in 2008 in order to update the national land
    registry as part of a cadastre modernization project in compliance
    with European Union instructions.

    The officials finished this work across nearly half the country in less
    than five years. In addition, several new laws have been passed that
    require the transfer of uncultivated land to the Treasury and, in some
    cases, that re-zone other land, such as forest land, transferring it
    to the jurisdiction of the Forestry Directorate.

    http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/170981/

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