STREET IN DIARBEKIR NAMED AFTER ARMENIAN WRITER
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
28.12.2009 20:12 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ One of the streets in Diarbekir, the biggest town
in the south-east of Turkey, has been named after Turkish writer of
Armenian decent Mkrtich Markosyan. Decision to rename the street was
made by the town’s Mayor Abdullah Demirbas, "Agos" Turkish-Armenian
newspaper reported. The opening ceremony was attended by the writer
himself,
Earlier, a street in Istanbul was named after Hrant Dink, the
assassinated Editor-in-Chief of Agos.