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It beggars belief that the U.S. and U.K. governments, both advocates of freedom and democracy allow themselves to become bedfellows with a sick and fascist country like turkey…
Having spent three days at Surp Giragos in June 2014, I am disturbed by this report. Perhaps someone could answer, accurately, some unanswered questions from this initial news story:
The fancy term “expropriated” means taken/confiscated. Okay, great. What does that mean? Is anyone allowed on those properties? Will something happen to those properties while in government hands?
Legal action is underway. Great. How long will that take? Weeks, months, years? What will happen while legal action is being taken? Will the government do something with the confiscated property? What COULD they do with the property? Raze it? Re-purpose it?
Looking forward to a more comprehensive update. Perhaps Agos should be the source of this journalism.
Article doesn’t say why this decision was taken…
The Turkish government has not made it clear. The Armenian community in Turkey is asking the government to clarify.
There is a history in Turkey of confiscations of minority properties. It’s a way to keep those communities in check.
My wife Alice and I are very saddened by this report. Alice’s father Hovannes, at about 3 or 4 and the family were chased out of their home and Hovannes became an orphan, alone and lost his entire family. He was given the ubiquitous orphan boys’ May 28 birthday and Hovagimian as an orphan family name.
Enough is enough with the present barbarous Turkish government and its savage and inhuman leader, Edrogan. May Allmighty God punish them!
Please, somebody do something!
So what else is new? This has been going on for 100 years. As for the rest of the world, nothing will come of it.
Have not heard any criticism from US government condemning violation of religious rights and human rights by the Turkish government slaughter the Kurdish population. The US government is ubiquitously silent towards “our ally Erdogan” monsterous actions. Amazing hypocrisy!
As an objective observer I too find Turkey to be mired in ages old ethnic misbehavior, it seems to never stop. So hard to simply read about it- very sad. And yes, the U.S. does look the other way for purely geopolitical reasons. Hypocritical? My God yes…
Thank you for good article!
But the name of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Diarbakir is St Mary Syriac Orthodox Church, and not Assyrian as in the article.
Read
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary_Church,_Diyarbakır
Genocide of Armenians a steel going forward in different format!!!!!!
Expropriation is what the Turks have been doing for the last 100 years. In 1915, the “Ottomans” used WW1 as cover to take Christian properties from their rightful owners as the world was busy elsewhere. The clock moves to 2016 and as the west is cowering in front of the Turks over the refuge crisis, negotiations include freer access to European markets as a bargaining chip. Again, the Turks use the crisis as cover to further remove further evidence of our historical homelands. Perfect! Remember who the the Turks,aka “Ottomans”, are partnering with? It’s deja vu all over again. Nothing will come of it.
I certainly hope the US Government stays out of this!!! I am from Flint, Michigan where the tap water runs brown. I would be extremely upset if US dollars went to a church as opposed to a real crisis on our own soil. As people have mentioned in other comments, they are not expropriating the Christian faith. The US needs to clean up its own house first. Let’s leave well enough alone and not anger the Turks…remember what happened 100 years ago? There were 2 million Armenians now there are about 70,000. Nice population growth, eh?