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On Sept. 19, a number of Diasporan Armenians, as well as members of Turkey’s Armenian community attended the Divine Liturgy which took place at Holy Cross Armenian Church on Aghtamar Island. Also in attendance was a group calling themselves “Muslim Armenians.”
“We could not live in our true identities for generations. Although my grandfathers converted to Islam to save their lives during the painful events of their times, they secretly kept their identities as Armenians,” said Hacı Mehmet Ali, a spokesperson of the group, reports the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review.