Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay

Turkish Minister visits Armenian Church

July 11, 2011 News

11/7/2011 Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay visited the Armenian Holy Trinity church located in Eskisehir province of Turkey. The Minister familiarized himself with renovation works, Turkish Haberler website reports. The church was built by Armenians in 1881. After renovation it will be turned into a cultural center where exhibition, concerts and other events [...]

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Turkish culture minister visits Armenian Church

March 6, 2011 News

6/3/2011 Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay paid a working visit to the city of Nigde where he visited an Armenian church. In the course of his visit Gunay met with Nigde’s Mayor and visited abandoned Armenian and Greek churches, Turkish Dikkathaber website reports. He stressed importance of monuments’ restoration, adding it would contribute [...]

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Turkish Minister says Akhtamar Church to have no Bells

October 26, 2010 News

22/10/2010 Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay visited the Armenian church of St. Cross in Akhtamar Island, Van, Eastern Turkey, following a tourism conference on “Van 2023: world city”, SonDakika informs. “All religions are respected in all the corners of the world. Van example evidences this,” the Turkish minister said, hinting the re-opening of [...]

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