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 | Pasadena to host Armenian Genocide commemoration event The Pasadena Armenian Coalition will host its community-wide Armenian Genocide Commemorative Event. Armenia: Opposition activist transferred to Investigative Committee Activist Samvel Vardanyan has been accused of insulting the lawmaker Hakob Aslanyan from the ruling Civil Contract party. Russia confirms start of withdrawal of peacekeepers from Karabakh The Kremlin has confirmed reports about the start of the withdrawal of Russian peacekeeping forces in Karabakh. France recalls its ambassador to Azerbaijan France on April 16 said it had recalled for consultations the French ambassador to Azerbaijan. |