TURKISH MINISTER CALLS ON TO CO-OPERATE

Panorama.am
15:58 14/04/2009

The Minister of Culture of Turkey Ertugrul Gyunay calls on Armenia
to cooperate with Turkey to recover the ruins of Ani ancient
city. "Armenia and Turkey should cooperate in the activities of
recovering Ani," said the Minister and added that it would be better
for Armenia and Azerbaijan to find such ways of communication also.

The recovering activities start from the temple of Ani city supported
by the World Fund of Monuments. According to the minister Armenian
experts have already taken part in the discussions on the current
issue. Regarding the Armenian-Turkish relations the Minister of
Culture has notified that it is impossible to establish stability
and peace in Caucasus ignoring Azerbaijan. "We should not ignore the
Azerbaijani by normalizing relations with Armenia," said the Turkish
Minister. Note that recently Armenian historic monuments in Turkey
are being renamed into Turkish names and the Minister expressed his
negative approach to this fact. "I don’t think that it is right to
rename historic monuments. There is nothing dangerous to keep them
as they used to," he said.