{"id":46527,"date":"2010-09-30T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/30\/ankara-upholds-kars-authorities-decision-no-praying-namaz-in-ani-cathedral\/"},"modified":"2010-09-30T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T06:57:00","slug":"ankara-upholds-kars-authorities-decision-no-praying-namaz-in-ani-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/30\/ankara-upholds-kars-authorities-decision-no-praying-namaz-in-ani-cathedral.html","title":{"rendered":"Ankara Upholds Kars Authorities’ Decision: No Praying Namaz in Ani Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Turkey’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture officially upheld the decision by Kars regional authorities which stated that leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party Devlet Bah\u00e7<\/span>eli can visit the Cathedral of Ani, but he can’t pray namaz (or salat) there.<\/p>\n

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As told by the Epress.am correspondent in Istanbul, Ankara has not permitted worship in the cathedral with any official documents.<\/p>\n

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Speaking with Epress.am, this news was confirmed by Turkish-Armenian weekly paper Agos’ editor Aris Nalcin. He said that he spoke with the director of Van’s city museum, who also concern there was no permission in writing. <\/p>\n

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“In that document which Turkey’s culture ministry has publicized, it notes only about permission to visit and there’s nothing about namaz,” said Nalcin.<\/p>\n

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According to the Agos editor, though Turkish authorities officially prohibited praying namaz, “in reality, they tolerate the actions of the nationalists.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, Turkey’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[15710,16451,16452,16354,16374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}