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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/
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/