TURKISH GOVERNMENT DOES NOT TAKE STEPS IN DIRECTION OF REOPENING ARMENIAN CHURCH AS MUSEUM

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 9, 2008

ESKISHEHIR, JUNE 9, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. The Turkish
government has not taken any step up to now in the direction of
reopening the Armenian church built in the Sivrihisar region of
Eskishehir in the 19th century despite the fact that the Ministry
of Culture and Tourism of the country three years ago informed about
having started work on that occasion.

As the Cihan agency reports, Yashar Yurtdash, the Chairman of the
community council of Sivrihisar, has made a statement and mentioned
that the church is a very important historical structure and its
reopening as a museum can become an incentive for the development
of tourism.