Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Second Armenian Church to be Turned into a Museum in Turkey, Or How to Keep Falsifying History with European Funding and Approval
According to PanArmenianNet, an Armenian church in the Edremir district of Van is being reconstructed with European funding. As for the Holy Cross Church on Akhtamar Island a few months ago, this church should be turned into a museum. No doubt, like for the Holy Cross, there will be no mention whatsoever of how this church came to be deserted, when and why. Nor why the church was left abandoned for so many decades. As a perfectly politically healthy place in Turkey, the museum will show the Turkish account of Armenian's presence in Van.
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Taline, I would be glad if you write about the Armenians living in Israel, Palestine. What problems they face, the way the community is organized, churches, cultural groups, agoumps maybe...
It would be a great niche in the Armenian blogosphere.
This is not on point but I am surprised that the Genats - Le hayim blog has so far not commented on the controversy involving the Anti-Defamation League and a program it is sponsoring called "No Place for Hate". Well when the program was introduced to Watertown, Mass. a town with a large Armenian population, one citizen objected asking how could the town be involved with a group (the ADL) which denies the Armenian Genocide.
The town has backed away from the program, the regional director of the ADL has now been fired for calling on the national ADL to recognize the Genocide, and Abraham Foxman's leadership has been called into question.
As well as in the Boston Globe, it is covered in http://www.cilicia.com/armo_spiurk-log.html
www.iararat.com
http://iararat.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/local-chapter-breaks-with-adl-position-on-the-armenian-genocide/
and
http://www.jewcy.com/
R.
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