Reports on Hamshen Armenians inhabiting NKR untrue

 May 16, 2011 - 11:43 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The head of the Center of Westerns Armenians Studies, Haykazun Alvrtsyan has described reports on settlement of 200 Hamshen Armenian families from Kyrgyzstan in Nagorno Karabakh as ‘misunderstanding’.

“The unverified information spread by Armenian media could have caused serious problems for the Hamshen Armenians in Kyrgyzstan,” he told a press conference on May 16.

For his part, editor-in-chief of Dzayn Hamshenakan” (The Voice of Hamshen) Sergey Vardanyan said that one of the representatives of the Armenian Hamshen community of Kyrgyzstan, Ruslan Karabadjaoglu, visited Armenia and NKR with the idea of further settling there. “However, this does not mean that the entire community numbering 200 families would agree to move,” he said.

Both Alvrtsyan and Vardanyan emphasized that similar information can have grave consequences in the Turkic-speaking, Islamic Kyrgyzstan and called on journalists to be more cautious and responsible.

Earlier, Yerkramas newspaper published a report saying that 200 Hamshen Armenian families are planning to move from Kyrgyzstan to Nagorno Karabakh.