ANCA Urges Action by Obama on Turkish Government Confiscation of St. Giragos Church

The Surp Giragos Armenian Apostolic Church (Photo: Nanore Barsoumian)

WASHINGTON””The Armenian National Committee of America has communicated the Armenian American community’s profound concern to the U.S. government regarding reports that the Turkish government has confiscated the recently restored St. Giragos (Surp Giragos) Armenian Church and a range of other religious sites in the Diyarbakir region of present-day Turkey, as part of a broader “emergency expropriation”