After a delegation from the Committee of the Great House of Cilicia under the authority of Catholicos Aram I visited August 22 to Sis (Cilicia) to visit the ruins of the Armenian Catholicosate of possessions qu’Antelias demands of Turkey return . A Mass was celebrated on the scene, the ruins of the Catholicosate in Sis who was the seat of the Great House of Cilicia 1293 to 1915. In the ruins, was read the call for the Armenians Aram I, 100 years after genocide which also saw the departure of the Catholicosate to Antelias, a district of Beirut (Lebanon). Calling Aram I evoking the suffering of the Armenian people, massacres, deportation and the rights of the Armenian nation. It also requests the return of the Armenian Catholicosate of Sis heritage unjustly despoiled by Turkey.

Recall that on April 28, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia had formally asked the Constitutional Court of Turkey, the return of the property of the Armenian Church to Sis. The same request was sent by Antelias to the European Court of Human Rights.

The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia who was in Sis, the capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was looted by the Ottoman government in 1921 forcing the Catholicos Sahak II Khabayan to leave Sis and refuge successively in Jerusalem, Aleppo, Damascus, Cyprus and finally in 1930 in Antelias (Beirut).

Krikor Amirzayan (Գրիգոր Ամիրզայեան)