TURKS RESPOND ARMENIANS AND WHOLE WORLD WITH OPENING OF AGHTAMAR

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 02 2007

ANKARA, MARCH 2, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Aghtamar church
which has been restored already for three years, will open on April
15. Yusug Halacoglu, the Chairman of the History Institute of Turkey
stated about it.

According to Marmara, Turkey spent on the restoration works 4 mln
liras, and in the Turkish historian’s words, this fact proves that
Turks "do not at all damage foreigners’ monuments after capturing
Anatolia." "No monument was destroyed in Istanbul, while only 2
thousand of 22 thousand Turkish monuments remained in Balkans," he
complained. "Opening of the Aghtamar church will become a response
given to Armenians and the whole world, Halacoglu stated.