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SOME ARMENIAN HISTORIC HOUSES IN MUS TO BE PROTECTED BY STATE
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/730994/some-armenian-historic-houses-in-mu%C5%9F-to-be-protected-by-state.html
16:30, 29 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 29, ARMENPRESS: The 3-5 stable houses, which
remained after the destruction of the Armenian houses in the Kale
District of MuĊ~_ Province, are possible to be taken under the state
protection. As reported by Armenpress, this was stated by the Turkish
aykiridogrular.com News website.
According to the website, the Ministry of Tourism and Culture
of Turkey has developed a project, which aims at reconstructing
the abovementioned Armenian houses and take them under the state
protection.
As earlier was reported by the Turkish media, in the framework of the
urban renewal project the Housing Development Administration of Turkey
(TOKI) intends to build 864 residential houses and 107 offices in
the place of the Armenian houses in the Kale District of MuĊ~_. The
TOKI has agreed with the 85% of the local population to carry out the
reconstruction works on the territory of about 60,000 square meters.
Many of the local population, living in the Kale District of
MuĊ~_ Province, refuse to take the money suggested by the Housing
Development Administration of Turkey and leave their houses. The
TOKI representatives announced that in any case they will demolish
the houses and if the population does not leave voluntarily, their
goods as well will remain under ruins.
An electronic signature collection has been organized against the
demolition of the historical Armenian houses in the MuĊ~_ Province, the
initiators of which appealed to join them and prohibit the devastation
of the last Armenian historical tracks in MuĊ~_. "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 the mankind. It
is a historical genocide", - says the statement.
The confiscation of properties of minority foundations dates back to
the early days of the Turkish Republic. The 1936 Law on Foundations,
known as the 1936 Declaration, ordered all foundations to submit a
property declaration listing immovable and other properties owned by
each and every foundation. Following the death of the nation's founder
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, those property declarations were forgotten.
When the Cyprus problem escalated in the 1970s, the General
Directorate of Foundations asked non-Muslim foundations to resubmit
their regulations. Yet those foundations did not have such regulations
because of a practice during the Ottoman Empire where such foundations
could only be established by individual decrees of the sultan of the
day. After receiving a negative response from these foundations, the
General Directorate of Foundations made a ruling that the declarations
of 1936 would be considered their regulation. Unless these declarations
did not carry a special provision entitling the foundation to acquire
immovable property, the General Directorate expropriated all immovable
property acquired after 1936.These expropriation acts were in violation
of both the Lausanne agreement and property rights.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/730994/some-armenian-historic-houses-in-mu%C5%9F-to-be-protected-by-state.html
16:30, 29 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 29, ARMENPRESS: The 3-5 stable houses, which
remained after the destruction of the Armenian houses in the Kale
District of MuĊ~_ Province, are possible to be taken under the state
protection. As reported by Armenpress, this was stated by the Turkish
aykiridogrular.com News website.
According to the website, the Ministry of Tourism and Culture
of Turkey has developed a project, which aims at reconstructing
the abovementioned Armenian houses and take them under the state
protection.
As earlier was reported by the Turkish media, in the framework of the
urban renewal project the Housing Development Administration of Turkey
(TOKI) intends to build 864 residential houses and 107 offices in
the place of the Armenian houses in the Kale District of MuĊ~_. The
TOKI has agreed with the 85% of the local population to carry out the
reconstruction works on the territory of about 60,000 square meters.
Many of the local population, living in the Kale District of
MuĊ~_ Province, refuse to take the money suggested by the Housing
Development Administration of Turkey and leave their houses. The
TOKI representatives announced that in any case they will demolish
the houses and if the population does not leave voluntarily, their
goods as well will remain under ruins.
An electronic signature collection has been organized against the
demolition of the historical Armenian houses in the MuĊ~_ Province, the
initiators of which appealed to join them and prohibit the devastation
of the last Armenian historical tracks in MuĊ~_. "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 the mankind. It
is a historical genocide", - says the statement.
The confiscation of properties of minority foundations dates back to
the early days of the Turkish Republic. The 1936 Law on Foundations,
known as the 1936 Declaration, ordered all foundations to submit a
property declaration listing immovable and other properties owned by
each and every foundation. Following the death of the nation's founder
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, those property declarations were forgotten.
When the Cyprus problem escalated in the 1970s, the General
Directorate of Foundations asked non-Muslim foundations to resubmit
their regulations. Yet those foundations did not have such regulations
because of a practice during the Ottoman Empire where such foundations
could only be established by individual decrees of the sultan of the
day. After receiving a negative response from these foundations, the
General Directorate of Foundations made a ruling that the declarations
of 1936 would be considered their regulation. Unless these declarations
did not carry a special provision entitling the foundation to acquire
immovable property, the General Directorate expropriated all immovable
property acquired after 1936.These expropriation acts were in violation
of both the Lausanne agreement and property rights.