news.am, Armenia
March 27 2010

Turkish cultural center to open in Yerevan?

16:46 / 03/27/2010 Director General of the Yunus Emre Foundation ‘ Ali
Fuat Bilkan wishes to open a `Yunus Emre’ Turkish Cultural Center in
Armenia. Bilkan noted that if Armenia allows he will open the center
not waiting for ratification of the Protocols.

Bilkan informed that similar centers exist in Albania, Egypt and
Bosnia and soon new ones will open in Bulgaria, Greece, U.S.,
Kazakhstan, Syria, China and Russia.

Yunus Emre (1238-1328) was one of the most respectable Turkish poets
and Sufi mystic.

A.G.