Here’s a real story of stolen land and refugees with no right of return. Where are the descendants of Şurupçu Agop Efendi? Can they have their land back? “Armenian land: the case of Diyarbakır’s most valuable soil,” by Deniz Tekin, Ahval News, February 3, 2019 (thanks to M.): In the heart of Turkey’s southeastern province […]
Turkey seizes six Christian churches as state property
Let them into the EU! “Turkey seizes six churches as state property in volatile southeast,” World Watch Monitor, April 6, 2016: After 10 months of urban conflict in Turkey’s war-torn southeast, the government has expropriated huge sections of property, apparently to rebuild and restore the historical centre of the region’s largest city, Diyarbakir. But to […]