ARMENIAN OFFICIALS TO BE INVITED ON OPENING CEREMONY OF ST CROSS CHURCH IN AKDAMAR

PanARMENIAN.Net
01.03.2007 18:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Opening of the St Cross Church in Akdamar will be
a gesture to Armenians and the whole world, Yusuf Halacoglu, head
of the Turkish Historical Society stated. "We don’t have anything to
hide. I shall be present on the ceremony," he said.

Armenian officials, leaders and culture ministers from European
countries will be invited to the opening of the church, The New
Anatolian reports. The opening ceremony will be held not April 11,
as was scheduled before, but April 15.

The opening of the church located on Akdamar Island was delayed
until April 24 by the Culture Ministry, but under the pressure of
Turkish-Armenian community and Constantinople Patriarch Mesrob II
Mutafyan the ceremony was changed to an earlier date.