Friday, May 06, 2005

‘All Turkish and Muslim Monuments Destroyed in Yerevan’

Desparate scraping of the bottom of the barrel!

Dr. Erol Kurkcuoglu from Erzurum Ataturk University said that the Armenians had destroyed the Turkish and Muslim heritage in Armenia. “Once Yerevan was a Turkish city” Kurkcuoglu added.

Kurkcuoglu said “the name of the city was Revan until the 19th century. Gok, Kopru Kulagi, Tepebasi Mescits and Serdar Castle were destroyed by the Armenians. They destroyed all Turkish and Muslim traces in Armenia. 83 percent of Yerevan was Turkish during the 19th century, however the share decreased to 4.3 after the First World War”.
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Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears on:
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=9640
Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...].The bold emphasis is mine.

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