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New Motion in the UK Parliament on the return of our Churches
We are pleased that Andrew Dismore , the hard-working Labour MP for
Hendon has put this motion in the House of Commons, London, at our
request. This is the first time that a motion has been put suggesting
that some Restitution for the Genocide, including the return of the
remains of the confiscated Churches and Monasteries, is in order
We urge Armenians in the UK to lobby their MPs to sign. It has
gatheres 20 signatures amongst British MPs during its first week.
EDM 1588
HISTORIC TREATMENT OF MINORITIES IN TURKEY
03.06.2009
Dismore, Andrew
That this House notes the statement by the Turkish Prime Minister
recognising that Turkey’s minorities have been ethnically cleansed;
calls on the Government also to recognise this fact; suggests that a
measure of restitution which could be made by the government of Turkey
to demonstrate its good intentions would be the return to the
jurisdiction of the respective Patriarchates the 2,000 Armenian,
Assyrian and Syriac churches and religious monuments which were
expropriated in 1923 by the Turkish State under the law of abandoned
properties following the events of the 1915 Genocide; and urges the
Government to make representations to Turkey to this effect.