Historic Armenian houses turned into guesthouses in TurkeyOctober 31, 2017 - 17:02 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Historic Armenian houses in the Turkish city of Gaziantep have been turned into hotels, Ermenihaber.am reports. The Armenian houses with centuries-old history, built with special stones for keeping the home cool in summer and warm in winter are today of great interest among tourists visiting the city. The buildings which are now used as guesthouses have a history of 200-300 years. One of the houses even features inscriptions in Armenia. According to the owner of one of the guesthouses, the new lodgings are in great demand especially on the weekends. Overnight stay in a double room, breakfast included, costs somwhere between 150 and 200 liras ($40-50). 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. |