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    ARMENIAN AND KURDISH VILLAGE NAMES RESTORED IN VAN

    By Weekly Staff on December 24, 2014

    VAN, Turkey (A.W.)--The Van Metropolitan Municipal Council restored
    the old names of 704 neighborhoods, Turkish newspapers reported.

    Sign in Armenian in the town of Edremit in Van (Photo by Khatchig
    Mouradian)

    The municipality has said that it will use these old names in its
    official documents. In each local municipality research was conducted
    to identify the old names of the neighborhoods.

    In BaÅ~_kale 81 villages and neighborhoods received their old names
    back; in Caldıran 86; in Catak 34; in Edremit 18; in ErciÅ~_ 105;
    in GevaÅ~_ 37; in Gurpınar 174; in Ä°pekyolu 50; in Muradiye 41;
    in Ozalp 53; and inside the city proper 25.

    The decision was approved by members of the council who were from the
    pro-Kurdish party as well as the ruling party. Reportedly, village
    signs will also be changed and include the Kurdish and Armenian names.

    Before the Genocide, there were around 90,000 Armenians living in
    350 villages in what is today the province of Van, according to
    Les Arméniens dans l'Empire Ottoman a la veille du génocide by
    historians Raymond Kevorkian and Paul Paboudjian. There were 382
    churches and 65 monasteries in the area.

    http://armenianweekly.com/2014/12/24/armenian-kurdish-village-names-restored-van/

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