Ermenihaber.am news website reports that Malkara-based Turkish writer Umit Bayazoglu has told media that a restaurant is being built in the place of the Armenian cemetery of Malkara.

The construction works go on irrespective of the fact that it was revealed that there had been an Armenian cemetery in that place.

More than 3,500 Armenians lived in Malkara, a town of Tekirdag Province in the Marmara region of Turkey, in the early 1915.

According to the municipality project, the small concrete construction located in the place of the Armenian cemetery is scheduled to be reconstructed into a restaurant. Human bones emerged as the foundation digging began.

Demir Ali Pala, head of the territorial organization of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), told reporters that even his father did not know whether or not there had been a cemetery in that place, and that he did not know where the bones had been gathered. According to him, it is a walking place for people, and some people gather there and drink alcohol and use drugs. Pala added that the place needed cleaning up.