Ruben Melkonyan: Turkey destroys Armenian, Greek, Assyrian cultural artifacts
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.
Πηγή: PanArmenian Net