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ISIL DESTROYS LANDMARK ARMENIAN CHURCH IN SYRIA
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Sept 24 2014
ISTANBUL
Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have
destroyed an Armenian church in an eastern Syrian city, which was
dedicated as a memorial to the 1915 mass killings of Ottoman Armenians.
The sixth-largest city in Syria, Deir ez-Zor, has a Kurdish majority
and was recently invaded by ISIL militants.
Deir ez-Zor, then an Ottoman-controlled desert town, was one of the
destinations in the 1915 deportations of Ottoman Armenians. During
a historic visit to Yerevan last year, Turkish Prime Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu declared the deportations to have been "wrong" and
"inhumane."
After killing hundreds of members of the Deir ez-Zor tribal clans last
month, ISIL destroyed the landmark church, according to local media.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has issued a statement
condemning the desecration of the church, calling it a "horrible
barbarity."
Nalbandian also called on the international community to cut the
sources of supply, support, and financing to ISIL and eradicate what
he referred to as "a disease that threatens civilized mankind."
September/24/2014
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/isil-destroys-landmark-armenian-church-in-syria.aspx?PageID=238&NID=72141&NewsCatID=352
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Sept 24 2014
ISTANBUL
Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have
destroyed an Armenian church in an eastern Syrian city, which was
dedicated as a memorial to the 1915 mass killings of Ottoman Armenians.
The sixth-largest city in Syria, Deir ez-Zor, has a Kurdish majority
and was recently invaded by ISIL militants.
Deir ez-Zor, then an Ottoman-controlled desert town, was one of the
destinations in the 1915 deportations of Ottoman Armenians. During
a historic visit to Yerevan last year, Turkish Prime Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu declared the deportations to have been "wrong" and
"inhumane."
After killing hundreds of members of the Deir ez-Zor tribal clans last
month, ISIL destroyed the landmark church, according to local media.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has issued a statement
condemning the desecration of the church, calling it a "horrible
barbarity."
Nalbandian also called on the international community to cut the
sources of supply, support, and financing to ISIL and eradicate what
he referred to as "a disease that threatens civilized mankind."
September/24/2014
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/isil-destroys-landmark-armenian-church-in-syria.aspx?PageID=238&NID=72141&NewsCatID=352