ANKARA: OPENING OF AKHTAMAR CHURCH ON APRIL 24 – MESSAGE OF CONCILIATION

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.12.2006 17:35 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ This week, Culture and Tourism Minister Atilla Koc
said they would be renovating the Armenian Akhtamar Church in the
Ani region of Kars with cooperation of the Armenian Church. He said
Armenian consultants and experts were involved in the planning stages
of the project. According to Koc the opening ceremony of the renovated
church will happen on April 24 in the presence of leading artists,
scholars and historians. This is seen as a cultural and religious
message of conciliation, reports Turkish Daily News.

On April 24 the Armenian people mark the anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire where 1.5 million of Armenians were
slaughtered.