{"id":21862,"date":"2010-09-08T05:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=21862"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:09:33","slug":"armenian-historians-urge-not-to-visit-akhtamar-on-september-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/09\/08\/armenian-historians-urge-not-to-visit-akhtamar-on-september-19\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMENIAN HISTORIANS URGE NOT TO VISIT AKHTAMAR ON SEPTEMBER 19"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

\"File:Akhtamar
\nLiana Yeghiazaryan<\/p>\n

“Radiolur”
\n06.09.2010 17:06<\/p>\n

A number of Armenian intellectuals from the History Institute of the
\nArmenian\u00a0National Academy of sciences\u00a0have issued a statement today,
\naccording to which Turkey will demand an expensive reimbursement from
\nthe Armenian side in exchange for the conduct of the liturgy at the
\nSt. Cross Church of Akhtamar. Director of the History Institute Ashot
\nMelkonyan is confident that there only one way out of this slippery
\nsituation – we should not support the Turkish show by visiting Akhtamar
\non that day.<\/p>\n

The Turkish side is trying to present the demonstration of the cross
\nto the public and the conduct of the liturgy at St. Cross Church as
\nan expression of goodwill towards\u00a0Armenia\u00a0and the Armenian people. The
\nTurkish side also wishes to involve 5-6 thousand people in the event.<\/p>\n

Rumors say the Armenian-Turkish border is going to be opened for
\nthree days. Armenian historians are assured, however, that Turkish
\nthus wants to reach certain objectives, which are anti-Armenian.<\/p>\n

“We have no desire to participate in the recurrent Turkish show. This
\nis true mockery. It would take half an hour to install the cross
\non the dome. I think there can be no second opinion here,” said
\nAshot Melkonyan, adding that “we are the masters of our Akhtamar
\nand we will have a lot of opportunists to conduct liturgies there,
\nand we should not do it under the Turkish flag waving and the face
\nof Mustafa Kemal there.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Director of the Oriental Studies Institute Ruben Safrastyan says the
\nshow organized by Turkey is a simple deceit. According to him, the
\ndecision of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin to boycott the mass
\nat St. Cross has made many citizens refuse from the idea of leaving
\nfor Van.<\/p>\n

“I think the majority of Armenians say ‘no’ to this show. We should
\nunderstand that the Shariat prohibits renovating a\u00a0Christian Church
\nand installing a cross on it. Besides, the political situation in
\nTurkey should be taken account of. 75% of the Turkish citizens are
\nactive Muslims, and the government will not go against them. Actually,
\nthey are deceiving,” he said.<\/p>\n

Armenian historians are confident that e Tukrey is doung that step
\nto resist the anti-Turkish wave expected to raise on the occasion
\nof the 100th anniversary of the\u00a0Armenian Genocide. According to the
\nstatement, Turkey had to do this under the Lausanne Treaty of 1923.<\/p>\n

The statements calls on every Armenian, who respects his national and
\nreligious dignity, to refrain from visiting Akhtamar on that day to
\navoid becoming a tool in the hands of the foreigners in this dirty
\nand anti-Armenian game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

__._,_.___<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liana Yeghiazaryan “Radiolur” 06.09.2010 17:06 A number of Armenian intellectuals from the History Institute of the Armenian\u00a0National Academy of sciences\u00a0have issued a statement today, according to which Turkey will demand an expensive reimbursement from the Armenian side in exchange for the conduct of the liturgy at the St. Cross Church of Akhtamar. Director of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-21862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-history-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}