‘All Turkish and Muslim Monuments Destroyed in Yerevan’
Journal of Turkish weekly, Turkey
May 6 2005
Dr. Erol Kurkcuoglu from Erzurum Ataturk University said that the
Armenians had destroyed the Turkish and Muslim heritage in Armenia.
“Once Yerevan was a Turkish city” Kurkcuoglu added.
Kurkcuoglu said “the name of the city was Revan until the 19th
century. Gok, Kopru Kulagi, Tepebasi Mescits and Serdar Castle were
destroyed by the Armenians. They destroyed all Turkish and Muslim
traces in Armenia. 83 percent of Yerevan was Turkish during the 19th
century, however the share decreased to 4.3 after the First World War”.
There is almost no Muslim or Turkish population in Armenia right now.
More than 1 million Turkish people became refugee after the Karabakh
Occupation. 20 percent of Azerbaijani territories have been under
Armenian population for a decade.