TURKS BAN THE WORD ‘ARARAT’ IN GEOGRAPHY BOOKS

Panorama.am
19:14 29/01/2010

Turkey’s Education Ministry banned the word "Ararat" in country’s
geography books. It goes about the name of the Biblical Mountain
"Ararat". According to Firat news agency, Turkey’s nationalists and
the ruling "Justice and Development" Party rank the word Ararat among
those banned and related to the Armenian Genocide.

"Ararat" symbolizes the Armenian Genocide," they explain.

The leader of the "National Movement" Party Hasan Chalis submitted
a bid to the Turkish parliament over substituting the word "Ararat"
for "Agir Dag" as the Turks call it generally.

Earlier Turkey’s nationalists urged the education ministry for
mediation to ban the word Ararat in "Google-Earth".