Kurdistan or Armenia???

[Reincarnated Am]

Guys please go to this site and see if this is the "Khor Virab" or I am mistaken, and please read the article and let me know what do you think about Kurds claiming that some of their lands are in Armenia.

http://www.teampsw.org/subpages/upg/kurds.html

Ays er bagas

[Hovik]

Yes, it is Khor Virap, the church of my marriage... unbelieveable...

[Reincarnated Am]

So you were married in Kurdistan? j/k

I got married in Sourp Zoravor

[elendil]

It is Turkey people for more than 80 years now. Get used to that fact...

[Hovik]

elendil, we are talking about the Armenian Church Khor Virab, which has never been in possession of Turks. It is about a mile and a half from the Turkish border, it has been in Armenian possession for 1,704 years on land that has been in Armenian possession for upwards of three thousand years - Get used to THAT fact...

[Hovik]

Here is my e-mail to, and response from the administration of that Kurdish site:

To Whom it May Concern:

I was just curious to know what the Armenian Church "Khor Virab" whose
picture is on your website, has anything to do with Kurds or Kurdistan?

Hovik
ArmenianGenocide.com

*******

Hovik,

Thank you for writing. The monastery Khor Virab makes a very striking
photograph with the mountains in the background. Some Kurdish villages are
found in these mountains of Armenia. We do not wish to imply that Khor Virab
has anything to do with Kurds or Kurdistan.

Sincerely,
TeamPSW

[elendil]

elendil, we are talking about the Armenian Church Khor Virab, which has never been in possession of Turks. It is about a mile and a half from the Turkish border, it has been in Armenian possession for 1,704 years on land that has been in Armenian possession for upwards of three thousand years - Get used to THAT fact...

If it is outside our present borders then my comment was misguided, my apologies...

[AnnFrankenstein]

Why are you surprised? Ever see a map of what the kurds claim as kurdistan?



On the site it also says, "Diyarbakir, in southeastern Turkey is widely accepted as the ancient capital of the Kurds." , but from what I have seen on maps and read elsewhere, it seems to me that "diarbakir" is one of Tigranes 4 cities that he named Tigranakert and like most other Armenian towns and cities, they are claiming them as theirs. I guess they still want what they were promised by the turks for killing Armenians. According to their map, even Ararat is in kurdistan.

[Hovik]

So you were married in Kurdistan? j/k

I got married in Sourp Zoravor

Haha, yeah it seems thats what Kurds may think...

Isn't Sourp Zoravor on Proshyan Street near Sourp Hovaness? I had a lamb blessed at Sourp Hovaness (my church ) in may for matagh... They have a lot of great restaurants on Proshyan...

[Reincarnated Am]

Isn't Sourp Zoravor on Proshyan Street near Sourp Hovaness? I had a lamb blessed at Sourp Hovaness (my church ) in may for matagh... They have a lot of great restaurants on Proshyan...

I'm not so sure because I don't know Yerevan that well, but I think "Sourp Zoravor" is near "M. Saryan museum", close to Pushkin str. (between Saryan str. and Pushkin Str.)