Turks Pray In Ancient Armenian Cathedral

Hundreds of Turkish nationalists have performed Muslim prayers in one of the most important historical Armenian churches in a high-profile ceremony authorized by Turkey's government, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. The political action, organized by the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), followed the reported restoration of a cross atop another medieval Armenian church located in eastern Turkey. The 10th-century church of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island in Lake Van saw its first religious service in nearly a century less than two weeks ago. On October 1, Turkish television images showed MHP leader Devlet Bahceli leading several hundred supporters to the 11th-century Holy Virgin Cathedral at the ruins of Ani, the capital of a medieval Armenian kingdom. It is located in Turkey's northeastern Kars region, less than one kilometer away from modern-day Armenia. The crowd entered the once-thriving city through its well-preserved main gate and marched to the cathedral as an Ottoman-style Janissary brass band accompanied it. Participants carried Turkish flags and chanted "God is great" during the procession. Bahceli and senior MHP figures from across Turkey knelt and pressed their foreheads to the ground in the ensuing Friday prayer led by a Sunni Muslim cleric. The latter could be seen addressing the MHP flock from a makeshift podium erected inside the structure. Built by an Armenian royal dynasty in 1001, the cathedral has for centuries been regarded as a ...

Armenian Genocide Film Photographs: Turkish SOLDIER beheads Armenian: HOLOCAUST #1

Decapitations occurred as a rule to save bullets! FIRST HOLOCAUST of 20th CENTURY: 2007 Film soon to be released in USA 2010 or 2011, across the nation or on Spanish and English CABLE TELEVISION. It show one of the popular methods of Genocide employed in the genrocide era of 1071AD to today. (Turkey continues to kill the Armenian Church, architecture, erases Armenia from law, music, history and educational textbooks). The alphabet of "Turkey" was codified by Armenian linguists led by Hagop Mardaean. Armenian Balyan family, Sinan, and others built all the major architecture of Turkey, except for the confiscated Byzantine (Greek/Graeco-Armenian) churches. Turks would pounce on a village with feigned (faked) friendship (a policy of OSMAN GHAZI, spawn of the Saljuq Turks with their tens of thousands of Armenian slave girl concubines and abducted Christian boy (converted by sword to Islam) armies--JANISSARY army)), ALWAYS killed the men, abducted the females for sex slavery or sale, turned CHURCHES into GAY BATHhOUSES.. Thus, more Muslim Turks, less Christians! This parasitism went on for 900 years! The Avakians are a rich Christian Armenian family. Aram, a land-owner living in a small town in historic Armenia (now occupied by Muslim Turkey), and Assadour, a successful doctor from Venice, are brothers who have not seen each other for a long time and decide to meet in historic Christian Armenia. While Assadour prepares himself for his trip to his native land, the Armenian part ...