Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been invited to attend a concert commemorating the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, Ermenihaber.am reports.
Dresdner Sinfoniker will perform “Aghet”, a production commemorating the Armenian Genocide, in at the German Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on November 13.
Besides Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Minister of Culture Nabi Avci have also been invited to the event.
According to Turkey-based Armenian newspaper Agos, the invitation sent to Erdogan says the concert seeks to establish cooperation among artists of the three countries.
Also, the invitation said, the event is organized with the support of the German Foreign Ministry and the European Union.
The orchestra said on April 23 that Turkey attempted to pressure it and the EU to keep the term genocide out of the same concert it ended up playing on April 30 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Genocide.
The controversy then centered on texts that were sung or spoken during the show in the eastern German city of Dresden, as well as the event’s programme, which used the word.
Director of the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra Markus Rindt said the concert matters to Germany a lot as the country “bears its own share of responsibility for the massacres.”
German Foreign Ministry’s support
It reads the invitation letter dated October 21 Agos contact:
“Mr. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
You German-Turkish-Armenian Friendship Society is pleased to invite you to the opening and concert events and we hope to see you in our midst.
“Aghetti-Requiem” November 13th hour of the conclusion of our extensive concert tour with 19: 00 in Istanbul Consulate General in Kaisersaaal We want to celebrate with the support of the European Union and the German Foreign Ministry.
Dresden Symphony Orchestra will hold a concert for the participation of Turkish and Armenian guests. Ulvi Cemal Erkin’s String Quartet in the program next Quartet Cenk Erbiner the viola-duo, Vacha Sharafyans sürgit Gloria Viola, Duduk and String Quintet and Marc Sinan electric guitar in yello-Blue-Red String Quartet place armor. Www.aghet.e you can visit our website for more detailed information.
German-Turkish-Armenian friendship group of artists from three countries regularly bring together it aims to establish cooperation through art. These issues are not common to get in cooperation with both the Turkish and Armenian history and to share their influence today, and we would like to address the idea of freedom and artistic freedom peculiar to itself.
The common belief that dialogue contributed to good tomorrow, we would like to express that we will be very happy to see us.