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  • ANKARA: Armenia Awards Turkish Writer With 'Grigor Narekatsi' Medal

    ARMENIA AWARDS TURKISH WRITER WITH 'GRIGOR NAREKATSI' MEDAL

    Anadolu Agency (AA), Turkey
    September 4, 2013 Wednesday

    Armenian Culture Ministry has awarded the Turkish writer Yasar Kemal
    with the 'Grigor Narekatsi' Medal ISTANBUL (AA) - Armenian Culture
    Ministry has awarded the Turkish writer Yasar Kemal with the Grigor
    Narekatsi Medal. A committee, including the representative of Armenian
    Culture Ministry Seyranuhi Geghamyan, an Armenian Deputy Aragats
    Akhoyan and the representatives of Western Armenian Council Vahan
    Melikian and Sevag Ardzruni, arrived in Turkey so as to present the
    medal to the writer. The representative of Armenien Culture Ministry
    Seyranuhi Geghamyan made a statement and said, "We are here to convey
    Armenian people's feelings of appreciation to Kemal showing individual
    chivalry as opposing to the destruction of an Armenian church in
    Akdamar Island situated on Lake Van." On the other hand, writer Yasar
    Kemal stated, "I am honored by the Grigor Narekatsi medal. Grigor
    Narekatsi, whose poesy is as important as his holy personalty, is also
    my countryman. I thank the Armenian Culture Ministry which builds a
    friendly bridge in the name of Saint Grigor Narekatsi. Our common wish
    is a world where hostility becomes friendship and anger becomes love."

    The 'Grigor Narekatsi' Medal receives its name from a monk, poet and
    philosopher Grigor who lived between 951-1003. Saint Grigor is said
    to have lived mostly in eastern province Van in Turkey.


    From: Baghdasarian
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