RENOWNED TURKISH WRITER ASHAMED ERDOGAN
news.am
March 22 2010
Armenia
One of the prominent Turkish writers Yasar Kemal commenting on
Premier’s recent statement that he will deport 100.000 illegal
Armenians from Turkey, said: "It’s a shame, this shouldn’t be done."
Interestingly, through Kemal’s efforts Turkish authorities a while
ago gave up the idea to pull down of the Surb Khach church on Akhtamar
Island. It is known that in 1951 Turkish government made a decision on
dismissing the unique Akhtamar church on Lake Van and already started
to pull down the bell tower, when Kemal interposed and convinced the
authorities that the church is a universal heritage.
Yasar Kemal, Turk of Kurdish descent was born in 1923 in born in
Hemite. He was a candidate for a Nobel Prize in literature, as well
as the author of "The Legend of Mount Ararat" (1970).