Preservation, conservation of monuments.

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There was talk of a special thread on this topic.
I do not know if it was done.
If so, please do relocate and merge this one with that one.
If not, so be it;

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Re: Preservation, conservation of monuments.

SAMVEL KARAPETYAN: PROTECTION OF MONUMENTS DOES NOT ALWAYS DEPEND ON MONEY
Sona Hakobyan

"Radiolur"
18:11 18.04.2013

Every year on 18 April, the International Council on Monuments and
Sites (ICOMOS) celebrates the "International Day for Monuments and
Sites", whose establishment was approved by the 22nd UNESCO General
Conference in 1983. In 2013, the theme is Heritage of Education
(schools, universities, libraries, academies, etc.) in its expressions
in different geo-cultural contexts.

The aim of the International Day for Monuments and Sites is to
encourage local communities and individuals throughout the world
to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives,
identities and communities, and to promote awareness of its diversity
and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it.

The protection of monuments does not always depend on money, said
Samvel Karapetyan, President of the Research on Armenian Architecture
Fund. According to him, more important are the moral features of the
nation, the minimal respect and good taste. The expert said he does
not see a careful attitude towards monuments in Armenia today.

Samvel Karapetyan said he would like to be the Minister
of Education for just five minutes. He would use the time to
instruct the headmasters of all general schools to organize trips
to historical-cultural sites, as he's confident indifference and
lack of attitude are to blame for the poor condition of monuments in
our country.

http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/04/18/samvel-karapetyan-protection-of-monuments-does-not-always-depend-on-money/

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Re: Preservation, conservation of monuments.

There was talk of a special thread on this topic.
I do not know if it was done.
If so, please do relocate and merge this one with that one.
If not, so be it;

There are two threads actually.
Here http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread....Heritage-Sites
And the one I started here, before I know the above thead existed.

http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php/20292-Destruction-by-quot-Restoration-quot-–-Armenia-s-Ancient-Monuments-in-Peril

Both those are in the Armenian History section - but the sad reality is that this section, Armenian Politics, is probably a more accurate home for them since the issues have nothing to do with conservation (the concept of "conservation" doesn't seem to be understood in Armenia), and have everything to do with politics.

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Re: Preservation, conservation of monuments.

SAMVEL KARAPETYAN: PROTECTION OF MONUMENTS DOES NOT ALWAYS DEPEND ON MONEY
Sona Hakobyan

"Radiolur"
18:11 18.04.2013

Every year on 18 April, the International Council on Monuments and
Sites (ICOMOS) celebrates the "International Day for Monuments and
Sites", whose establishment was approved by the 22nd UNESCO General
Conference in 1983. In 2013, the theme is Heritage of Education
(schools, universities, libraries, academies, etc.) in its expressions
in different geo-cultural contexts.

The aim of the International Day for Monuments and Sites is to
encourage local communities and individuals throughout the world
to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives,
identities and communities, and to promote awareness of its diversity
and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it.

The protection of monuments does not always depend on money, said
Samvel Karapetyan, President of the Research on Armenian Architecture
Fund. According to him, more important are the moral features of the
nation, the minimal respect and good taste. The expert said he does
not see a careful attitude towards monuments in Armenia today.

Samvel Karapetyan said he would like to be the Minister
of Education for just five minutes. He would use the time to
instruct the headmasters of all general schools to organize trips
to historical-cultural sites, as he's confident indifference and
lack of attitude are to blame for the poor condition of monuments in
our country.

http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/04/18...pend-on-money/

It's all waffle waffle waffle waffle. Karapetyan is becoming another Ara Baliozian (as if we need even one Ara Baliozian) - someone who seems reluctant to ever name names or cite specific examples or be specifically critical of anything. Armenia should be expelled from UNESCO given Armenia's blatant disregard for the treaties it has signed up to regarding the protection of cultural monuments. And Zvartnots should be delisted from UNESCO's World Heritage List since (after its destructive rebuilding at the hands of the Lincy Foundation), it no longer fills the requirements for listing. But luckily for Armenia (and unlucky for Armenia's monuments), UNESCO is all politics and nothing at all to do with the protection of culture (Julfa proved that).

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Re: Preservation, conservation of monuments.

Expert of medieval architecture Samvel Karapetyan to present new scientific work

14:25, 20 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 20, ARMENPRESS: President of Research on Armenian
Architecture Foundation Samvel Karapetyan told about Turkish speaking
Armenians in his videoblog. As Armenpress has been informed from the
administration of the videoblog, Samvel Karapetyan hopes to complete
the publication of a scientific work, telling history of 300 villages
situated on left bank of the Kur River, as well as Armenian
architectural monuments with their measurements and photos. Samvel
Karapetyan also plans to share his memoires at the end of the work,
consisting of 600-700 pages.

In the video he tells about Armenians, speaking Turkish, whom he met
on left bank of the Kur River.

http://armenpress.am/eng/news/715998/expert-of-medieval-architecture-samvel-karapetyan-to-present-new-scientific-work.html

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Re: Preservation, conservation of monuments.

Monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh region left unattended

21:30 - 20.04.13


Many historical-cultural monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh's Kashatagh
region are in a dire need of protection, an editor of a local
publication has said in Yerevan.

`Thousands of historical monuments in the region are the best evidence
that the territory is Armenian. So our demand is to have them at least
reinforced,' Zohrap Erkoyan, the editor-in-chief of the Meran
newspaper, told a news conference on Saturday.

The best monument, he said, is the Varazgom monastery, a 9th century
construction that needs renovation.

`Besides, there are 18th century churches which also need repairs,' he
said, adding that the region also has rock carved churches whose
repairs require very small costs.

http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/04/20/qashatagh-monuments/

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Re: Preservation, conservation of monuments.

Monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh region left unattended

21:30 - 20.04.13


Many historical-cultural monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh's Kashatagh
region are in a dire need of protection, an editor of a local
publication has said in Yerevan.

`Thousands of historical monuments in the region are the best evidence
that the territory is Armenian. So our demand is to have them at least
reinforced,' Zohrap Erkoyan, the editor-in-chief of the Meran
newspaper, told a news conference on Saturday.

The best monument, he said, is the Varazgom monastery, a 9th century
construction that needs renovation.

`Besides, there are 18th century churches which also need repairs,' he
said, adding that the region also has rock carved churches whose
repairs require very small costs.

http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/04/2...agh-monuments/

These monuments need protecting from people like Zohrap Erkoyan. Protecting from nationalist bigots like him who only see them as objects to be exploited for their ideology.

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Re: Preservation, conservation of monuments.

Sakharov Square Building: Another Case of Misplaced 'Eminent Domain'

Kristine Aghalaryan
HETQ, April 17 2013

http://hetq.am/eng/articles/25607/sakharov-square-building-another-case-of-misplaced-eminent-domain.html

The building in the photo, located at 2 Pushkin Street facing Sakharov Square, is registered as a local monument.

The government has allocated it to an outfit called Local Developers, Ltd., a company founded by Samvel Mayrapetyan and his wife Gohar Kyalyan, former rector of the State Medical University.

The building was designed by the architect N. Buniatyan and went up in 1930.

Up until last year, the building housed the No. 8 fire and emergency services unit of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations. In September, the unit relocated to a new building on Myasnikian Street.

The building now serves as a garage for local residents and officials of nearby government agencies. The parking spaces are being rented out. A local lad named Davit refuted the claim that the parking spaces are being rented out by the month. Davit told me that the cars belong to his friends and relatives and that the fire brigade chief had requested that he keep his eyes on the site so that the homeless don’t move in.

Samvel Mayrapetyan could say nothing about the parked cars. He claimed ignorance and said that he hadn’t started to provide security for the site.

On May 7, 2009, the government decided to allocate the building to Mayrapetyan, arguing that the new owner would thus be compensated for agreeing to cover the costs of building a new structure for the fire and emergency unit on Myasnikian Street.

In response to a Hetq inquiry sent to the Yerevan Municipality, the Office of the Chief Architect said that the municipality had granted no construction permits regarding the building.

Samvel Mayrapetyan told Hetq that he hadn’t yet decided what his plans are for the landmark building, given that the process of buying up the property of residents in the immediate vicinity hadn’t been completed.

Thus, it turns out that not only has the landmark building been allocated to Samvel Mayrapetyan under the pretense of eminent domain, but adjacent properties as well.

Another Piece of Old Yerevan Faces Uncertain Future

Kristine Aghalaryan
HETQ, April 18 2013

http://hetq.am/eng/articles/25636/another-piece-of-old-yerevan-faces-uncertain-future.html

There’s a placard on the outside wall of the building at 4 Pushkin Street that reads, “Maintained by the government.”

Emma Kilikyan, a resident, says that the sign is merely for show and that the government is doing nothing to preserve the building built in the late 19th and early 20th century.

“They couldn’t give a hoot about this place,” said Kilikyan, who lives in the building along with her husband. The structure is included in the list of historical-cultural landmarks.

The resident says that an episode of the film Garegin Nzhdeh was filmed in the courtyard out back.

Kilikyan says that the building once belonged to the wealthy Tairov family and that the Kilikyans purchased in the late 1920s. She's been living there ever since and was married 55 years ago.

She says that the businessman Samvel Mayrapetyan is now pressuring them to sell.

The government has allocated the building at 2 Pushkin Street (the former fire engine station facing Sakharov Square) and adjacent structures to Mayrapetyan under an eminent domain order.

According to a 2008 government decision, Mayrapetyan’s “Local Developers” company in a project designed to rid Yerevan of dilapidated structures that were not seismically sound. The plan at the time was for the site to be demolished and a new multi-purpose structure to be built.

The government’s decision notes that the area contains landmark buildings which are in poor condition.

In its decision, the government also stated that the new owner of the site would be allowed to “restore and rebuild” the existing structures in a manner that would synthesize the old Yerevan architectural style with buildings now being erected.

As to what this means in practical terms is anyone’s guess. Even Mayrapetyan, the new owner, confesses that he hasn’t yet decided what to build at the site.

He knows that there are two landmark buildings at the site and claims that it is possible to maintain their former appearance, but that he will have to consult with architectural specialists. Mayrapetyan says that the Ministry of Culture will also have a say in the matter as to what can and cannot be changed.

Kilikyan says that Mayrapetyan has offered the family $400,000 for their 1,000 square meter property but have rejected the sum as inadequate.

She claims the market value is more like $1 million.

Most of the residents at 4 Pushkin have already accepted Mayrapetyan’s money and have vacated the premises.

One such resident, who didn’t wish to be named, said he accepted $70,000 for a 70 square meter apartment; an amount regarded as way below market for an apartment in the heart of Yerevan.

Mayrapetyan says he doesn’t know what course of action he will take regarding those who hold out for more money.

“The historical buildings require specific decisions and special attention,” said Mayrapetyan.

For the present, the status of 2 Pushkin remains in limbo.

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Destruction of a church in Sghert, Occupied Western Armenia

Թուրքիայում հերթական հայկական եկեղեցին է քանդվել. ահազանգում են իրավապաշտպանները (ֆոտո)

http://news.am/arm/news/151454.html

Մայիս 01, 2013
Նախկինում հայերով բնակեցված Թուրքիայի Սիիրթ նահանգի Էրուհի շրջանի Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցին քանդվել եւ տեղում աղջիկների համար կացարան է կառուցվում։

Ինչպես տեղեկացնում է Hytert-ը, Թուրքիայի մարդու իրավունքների միության Սիիրթի (Սղերթ) մասնաճյուղի պատասխանատուները մամուլի ասուլիսի ժամանակ հայտարարել են, թե Էրուհի հայկական Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցու քանդումն ու Էրուհի ճանապարհին հայկական գերեզմանների վրա ճանապարհ կառուցելը բռնաբարություն է հայ ժողովրդի հավատքի հանդեպ։

Մամուլի ասուլիսի ժամանակ թուրք իրավապաշտպաններից Սերդար Բաթուրը ցույց է տվել արդեն քանդված հայկական եկեղեցու հայերենով փորագրված քարերը, որոնք օգտագործցում են նոր կառուցվող շինության մեջ։ Նա նշել է, թե Էրուհում ապրողները, ովքեր հետագայում մահմեդականացվել են, դեռեւս այցելում են այդ եկեղեցու տարածք եւ մոմ վառում։

Մեկ այլ իրավապաշտպան Զանա Աքսուն հայտարարել է, թե 1915-ին սկսված եւ շարունակվող Հայոց ցեղասպանության գաղափարը Սիիրթում փորձում են թարմ պահել։

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Re: Destruction of a church in Sghert, Occupied Western Armenia

Թուրքիայում հերթական հայկական եկեղեցին է քանդվել. ահազանգում են իրավապաշտպանները (ֆոտո)

http://news.am/arm/news/151454.html

Մայիս 01, 2013
Նախկինում հայերով բնակեցված Թուրքիայի Սիիրթ նահանգի Էրուհի շրջանի Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցին քանդվել եւ տեղում աղջիկների համար կացարան է կառուցվում։

Ինչպես տեղեկացնում է Hytert-ը, Թուրքիայի մարդու իրավունքների միության Սիիրթի (Սղերթ) մասնաճյուղի պատասխանատուները մամուլի ասուլիսի ժամանակ հայտարարել են, թե Էրուհի հայկական Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցու քանդումն ու Էրուհի ճանապարհին հայկական գերեզմանների վրա ճանապարհ կառուցելը բռնաբարություն է հայ ժողովրդի հավատքի հանդեպ։

Մամուլի ասուլիսի ժամանակ թուրք իրավապաշտպաններից Սերդար Բաթուրը ցույց է տվել արդեն քանդված հայկական եկեղեցու հայերենով փորագրված քարերը, որոնք օգտագործցում են նոր կառուցվող շինության մեջ։ Նա նշել է, թե Էրուհում ապրողները, ովքեր հետագայում մահմեդականացվել են, դեռեւս այցելում են այդ եկեղեցու տարածք եւ մոմ վառում։

Մեկ այլ իրավապաշտպան Զանա Աքսուն հայտարարել է, թե 1915-ին սկսված եւ շարունակվող Հայոց ցեղասպանության գաղափարը Սիիրթում փորձում են թարմ պահել։

The original Turkish source for the above is at: http://ermenihaber.am/?lang_id=1&men...4&cur_news=655

And in English.

http://news.am/eng/news/151454.html

May 01, 2013 | 15:14

The Surp Hovhannes (Saint John) Armenian church, which is located in Eruh Region of Turkey’s Siirt Province where Armenians used to live, is demolished and a dormitory for girls is being built at the site.

During a press conference, the persons in charge of the Siirt chapter of Turkey’s Human Rights Association announced that the destruction of the church and the construction of a road on the Armenian graves on the road of Eruh are a barbarity against the faith of the Armenian people, Hyetert website reports.

In this connection, human rights activist Serdar Batur showed the picture of the destroyed Armenian church’s Armenian language-engraved stones, which are used in the construction of the aforesaid dormitory. He noted that the Eruh residents, who were converted to Islam, still visit the area of that church and light candles there.

Another human rights activist, Zana Aksu, stated that there is an attempt to keep fresh in Siirt the idea of the Armenia Genocide, which continues ever since 1915.



Video of the nearby cemetery that was destroyed by the road making.

http://webtv.hurriyet.com.tr/2/41993/0/1/yol-yapiminda-ermeni-mezarligi-ortaya-cikti.aspx

And report of same:

http://news.am/eng/news/114714.html