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    ARMENIAN ARCHITECTS CAN MAKE SURP KHACH CHURCH COMPLETE
    By Ruzan Poghosian

    AZG Armenian Daily #177
    04/10/2005

    Armenia-Turkey

    Armenian architects, who by mediation of Armenia's national committee
    of the International Council on Monuments and Sites were in Turkey
    to watch reconstruction works of Surp Khach church of Akhtamar
    Island, shared with their impressions at a press conference on 1
    October. Architect Ashot Hovsepian said that they failed to meet the
    author of the church's layout, a Turkish architect. The latter did
    not come to the meeting for uncertain reasons. The layout fitting
    required criteria in general, still has a number of inadequacies that
    can be corrected before the end of the reconstruction.

    "Those deficiencies are perhaps not a deterioration but the layout
    would be more perfect if they were not there. We told 3 Turkish
    architects working there about our observations asking to correct
    visible deficiencies", he said. The Turks turned down Armenian
    specialists' offer to mix cement with lime batch. The Armenian
    architects think that the quality of the Turks' work is not satisfying
    but the overall impression is not despairing.

    Gagik Gyurjian, minister of culture of Armenia, said that Armenian
    and Turkish specialists will make visits in near future. The
    Turk architects will have a chance to study Armenian architecture
    scrupulously. Van-born academician Varazdat Harutyunian expressed
    wish to celebrate his 97th anniversary in Van, hoping that Turkey will
    open borders and improve relations with Armenia before his birthday.
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