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Probing New Documentary on Destruction of Armenian Cultural Monuments in Turkey Screened in London for HMD
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Armenian Reporter, The
02-07-2004
Gomidas Institute (UK) and Naregatsi Art Institute (New York) held a
special screening of Desecration, a probing documentary on the destruction
of Armenian cultural monuments in modern cultural monuments in modern
Turkey. The film showed dozens of stills and video clips of desecrated
Armenian churches used as stables, storehouses, and mosques.
Many others were all but destroyed, such as the St. Apostles Monaster...
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