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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Istanbul changes name of street named after famous Armenian engineer again

News.am, Armenia
Oct 26 2021
23:40, 26.10.2021

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has changed the name of the street named after famous Armenian engineer Hovhannes Dadyan in Bakirkoy again.

According to the Turkish Medyascope, since 2008, the Municipality of Bakirkoy has been referring to the street as Dadyan Street, but after a while, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality is changing the name again.

The residents of Bakirkoy stressed that they are in favor of naming the street after Dadyan since he was a famous engineer in the Ottoman Empire and did a lot for the country.

Hovhannes Dadyan was born in 1799. In his prime, he started making gunpowder, became a famous engineer and held major positions in the Ottoman army. He also built the St. Mary’s Church and Dadyan School, which still exist on Dadyan Street, a street that Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality is constantly changing.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS