DEMONSTRATION OF PROTEST AGAINST OPENING OF AKHTAMAR SURB KHACH CHURCH
ISTANBUL, APRIL 2, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A scanty group
organized an anti-Armenian demonstration at 10:00 by local time,
before the opening ceremony of the Akhtamar Surb Khach (Saint Cross)
church, at the Gevash port from where ships left for the Akhatamar
church. Yonal Cavusogli, Tukbeddin Yilmaz, Nedim Aysun and Svad Sayic,
Chairmen of Van branches of four different trade-unions were the
organizers. The demonstrators had in their hands Turkish flags,
Ataturk’s portraits as well as posters on which the following was
written "The Turkish people is noble people. It committed no
Genocide."
According to "Marmara," heads of the demonstration of protest against
opening of the church were arrested and moved to the Gevash Police.