YEREVAN (Armenpress)—Historical Armenian houses that remain standing almost a century after the destruction of Armenian towns in Turkey’s Mush Province are set to be demolished for new construction, with the exception of three to five houses, which may be formally taken under state protection, according to Turkey’s Aykiridogrular.com news website, reports Armenpress.
According to the website, Turkey’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture aims to reconstruct the three to five of the Armenian houses and take them under state protection.
As reported earlier by the Turkish media, Turkey’s Housing Development Administration (TOKI) intends to build some 864 residential houses and 107 offices in the place of Armenian houses in the Kale District of Mush. The TOKI says it has garnered the support of 85% of the local population to carry out reconstruction work on the territory, which makes up about 15 acres
Many of the local population of the Kale District refuse to take the money offered by the Housing Development Administration to leave their homes. However, TOKI representatives have announced that they will demolish the houses in any case and that, if the population does not vacate voluntarily, their goods, too, will remain under rubble.
An electronic petition has been organized against the demolition of the historic Armenian houses in the Mush Province, the initiators of which wish to prohibit the destruction of the last Armenian historical traces in Mush.
“Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians are being subjected to genocide. The process, launched by the genocide in 1915, is currently continuing as a cultural and economic genocide. To kill a culture means to kill a part of mankind. It is a historical genocide,” says the petition’s statement.
The confiscation of properties from minority communities dates back to the early days of the Turkish Republic. The 1936 Law on Foundations, known as the 1936 Declaration, ordered all communities to submit a property declaration, listing immovable and other properties owned by each and every foundation in the community. Following the death of the nation’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, those property declarations were forgotten.
When the Cyprus problem escalated in the 1970s, the General Directorate of Foundations expropriated all immovable property from community foundations acquired after 1936. These expropriation acts were in violation of both the Lausanne agreement and property rights.
If ever was a case study of pure evil to thrive and reinvent itself, the Turkish experiment is the highest on the list…
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MER,, HAYEROU DOUNERREH, VOR DEGHEN TCHARTVADZ TOURSS NEDVETSANK..
so they did commit genocide
Armenian Genocide continues under Washington’s and EU’s blessings
Instead of reporting this type of nonsense, why don’t we focus more on Artsakh and the homes being built there or being abandoned as the case may be so that the houses in Artsakh, 100 years from now or sooner, do not face the same destiny as the ones in Mush.
This is where football diplomacy and talks about opening the border leads to.
yelir Gevork arten shat ush e, yeler Gevork yelir dushmanet shate, hayoyc azgi hamar krvele parke, hayoc azgi hamar mernele parke
I have seen the land that have been lost
I want to be moderated, I love to be moderated, Karmir Vartan, Hzor Vaertan, Avarairi dashte nerkec ko ariounov, Kaj Vartan, ariounet hishatak mer gorci, du surrb gorci hamar yeghar nahatak!
soon I will try to make an impact, you bozo Armenians, that is Vartan way we follow
you will hear from us, you have to