WILL TURKISH MOSQUE BE OPENED IN YEREVAN?

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 02 2007

ISTANBUL, APRIL 2, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Armenian
authorities promised to restore a Turkish monument in Yerevan or
Armenia and open it to visitors in response to re-opening Surb Khach
(Holy Cross) Church of Aghtamar.

"Miliet" reported it, referring to the Turkish minister of culture
Atilla Koc. In his words, during a meeting with the Armenian minister
of culture in Kiev on September 15, 2005, H. Poghosian said that
Yerevan follows attentively the repairs of Aghtamar church and intends
to open a Turkish mosque or monument in Yerevan or Armenia. According
to the Turkish newspaper, the Armenian deputy minister of culture
Gagik Gyurjian, who arrived in Turkey on the occasion of opening
Aghtamar church, re-asserted this intention.