STUDENT UNION LAUNCHES EXHIBITION OF PHOTOS ABOUT ARMENIAN MONUMENTS IN THE REGION
Armenpress
Apr 18 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS: A student organization closely
affiliated with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) has
launched today an exhibition of 70 photos, shot by Samvel Karapetian
and Hrayr Baze, which show the past and present state of Armenian
monuments in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran.
Titled ‘Cultural Genocide’ the exhibition will run for three days in
the front yard of the Yerevan State University. The row of photographs
presenting the state of Armenian monuments in Iran where Armenian
monuments are preserved and the government releases funds for their
repair is titled as ‘Dialogue of Civilization.’ This is not the case
regarding the Christian Georgia were numerous Armenian monuments were
destroyed and as many were declared as ‘being Georgian.”
Abraham Gasparian from the student organization, called Nikol Aghbalian
Union, said the word ‘dialogue’ is simply inapplicable when we speak
about the fate of Armenian monuments in Turkey and Azerbaijan. He
said though Turkey’s ministry of culture has developed a ten-year
program for restoration part of Ani, a medieval Armenian capital,
now in Turkey, the Armenian side has to press for dispatching Armenian
experts to the site so that Turks do not distort its history.