Tuesday, May 12, 2009

MORE ON THE SYRIAC MOR GABRIEL MONASTERY and the land dispute associated with it:
Arameans want prime minister to mediate over Mor Gabriel
Arameans have appealed to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a letter seeking his mediation in a land dispute between the Mor Gabriel Monastery and the surrounding villages that has already been heard in court.

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The Syriac Universal Alliance (SUA), a worldwide umbrella organization of national federations of Aramean people, in their letter to Erdoğan, indicated that they wanted him to mediate in the conflict. The SUA also asked the prime minister to “ensure that the decisions of the relevant Turkish authorities are reversed and relevant cases are resolved to the benefit of the Aramean people in order for the current public condemnation of Turkey to end.”

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12 May 2009, Tuesday (Today's Zaman)
AYŞE KARABAT ANKARA
Related article here. And AINA has a long article by Nuri Kino (translated from Swedish) on the whole controvery and court case.

Background here.