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news.am report [Armenian] Church of St. Bartholomew located in the territory of the Turkish military unit, was for many years been used by the Turkish soldiers as an outhouse, the Kurdish DIHA agency reports.
The agency correspondent visited the church and inquired from competent authorities about the further fate of the shrine.
He found out that the church appeared in the territory of the military unit after the Armenian Genocide. The Turkish soldiers destroyed the Armenian inscriptions and mural paintings, and used the church as an outhouse.
The agency correspondent addressed the Culture and Tourism Division of the Turkish Van city, where he was told that there was an initiative to restore the church, but the project was not completed due to the absence of funds.