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    TURKS WOULD DISMANTLE THE MONUMENT TO ARMENIAN-TURKISH FRIENDSHIP EVEN IF IT WAS MICHELANGELO'S SCULPTURE
    Alisa Gevorgyan

    "Radiolur"
    02.05.2011 18:20

    "The hand of friendship withdrawn as Turkey and Armenia squabble,"
    the British "Independent" writes in an article dedicated to the
    dismantling to the monument to Armenian Turkish friendship in Kars.

    "A monument built to celebrate friendship between Turkey and Armenia
    is being dismantled, in a gesture that shows how much an attempted
    rapprochement between the two nations has stalled," the British
    paper writes.

    According to architect Levon Tokmajyan, the monument was of no
    cultural value, but Turks would have behaved the same way even if
    it was Michelangelo's sculpture, since it is the requirement of
    contemporary Turkish politics.

    The statue, in the eastern Turkish city of Kars, depicts two figures
    emerging from a single mass, signifying common ground between nations
    with a bitter and difficult history, and was commissioned in 2006 to
    commemorate cautiously improving ties between them.




    From: A. Papazian
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