Ruben Melkonyan: Turkey destroys Armenian, Greek, Assyrian cultural artifactsMay 2, 2011 - 15:45 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia has to intensify activities in relevant international organizations to draw attention to Turkey’s demolition of non-Turkic cultural heritage, a Turkish Studies expert stated. At news conference in Yerevan, Ruben Melkonyan cited as an example Turkey’s transforming a Kars-based Armenian church into a mosque, as well as a failure to point out Armenian origin of cultural monuments in Western Armenia. As the expert stressed, Turkey has similar attitude to all non-Muslim artifacts, specifically Assyrian and Greek ones. According to him, Turkey is using the other nations’ cultural heritage and tourist attractions to gain its ends, setting monuments, allegedly commemorating “victims of Turkish genocide perpetrated by Armenians” right next to them. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | European Parliament to discuss repression in Azerbaijan The European Parliament will discuss repression of civil society in Azerbaijan on April 24 PACE wants concessions from Azerbaijan to accept Baku back A PACE co-rapporteur said that Azerbaijani authorities must make certain concessions so that the country can return to PACE. Cyprus parliament honors Armenian genocide victims Acting House President Zacharias Koulias noted that April 24 marks the “black anniversary” of the Armenian genocide. Armenia PM, France envoy discuss regional matters Issues related to the consistent development of Armenia-France cooperation were discussed. |