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    Emil Lazarian
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Turkish Press: Member of Turkey’s Armenian community becomes governor for first time

Aug 18 2022
Wednesday 05:01 pm

A person from Turkey's Armenian community has become governor for the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic.

The 27-year-old Berk Acar has become the district governor of the western province of Denizli's Babadağ district, according to reporting by the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos.

Acar, born in 1995, attended Sahakyan Nunyan Armenian Middle School and Işık High School. In 2020, he graduated from the faculty of law at Bilgi University. He later took the state exams to be a governor. He came 72nd out of 13,374 people at a written exam conducted in the capital Ankara in July 2021. He was among the 475 people summoned for the interview.

He has now been appointed as the Babadağ district governor and will replace the previous governor Adem Karataş. Acar is expected to start his job in the upcoming days.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/member-of-turkeys-armenian-community-becomes-governor-for-first-time-news-61146

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