Another Armenian church destroyed in TurkeyMay 1, 2013 - 16:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Saint Hovhannes Armenian church has been demolished in Turkey, with an Islamic school and a student hostel to be built on the site. Representatives of Siirt city’s branch of Turkey’s human rights union described the destruction of the Armenian church and construction of a new highway on the site of Armenian cemeteries in Eruh district as an act of violence. Armenian Genocide survivors and Eruh residents who converted to Islam still visit the churches, demokrathaber.net reported. Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |