KURDS FORBIDDEN TO BURY FAVORITE SINGER

News.am
15:37 / 08/14/2009

Aram Tigran, 75, died in Athens last week.Osman Baydemir, Mayor of
Diyarbakir city (populated with Kurds) took soil from Diyarbakir
to Brussels to the grave of popular among Turkish Kurds singer Aram
Tigran, Turkish Haberler website reports.

According to Haberler, Kurdish community of Turkey wished to bury
the singer in Diyarbakir, assuming that Turkish Government will give
the permission. The Mayor also participated at the burial ceremony
and severely criticized Turkish authorities for banning to bury Aram
Tigran in Diyarbakir. Baydemir stated that he will take the soil from
this symbolic cemetery to Brussels on Aram Tigran’s grave.

NEWS.am notes, that Aram Tigran’s family (Armenian origin) left Turkey
escaping from Genocide. They settled in Syrian Kamshli, where Aram
Tigran was born in 1934.