Armenian Holy Cross Church on Akhtamar in Lake Van,
By permitting the Armenians to only one Mass per year to the Armenian Holy Cross Church on Akhtamar in Lake Van, Turkey treats its image and wants to benefit from the tourist trade thousands of Armenians who go on island of Akhtamar. Behind this facade opening, thousands of Armenian churches are now in ruins when they are not destroyed, on the territory of historic Armenia.
Many Armenian churches have also been used to target when firing during practice of the Turkish army and many other dismantled and its stones recovered by the Turks or Kurds for their own construction. The Armenian Genocide is also the cultural genocide with removal of traces of their cultural, religious and national on the same land where Armenians have lived for thousands of years and built a civilization.
Krikor Amirzayan