YEREVAN. – Armenia’s renowned recording artist Nune Yesayan will head to Turkey to take part in a May 11 benefit concert organized by the Istanbul Armenian community. The singer herself told this to Armenian News-NEWS.am. She noted that it will be her solo concert and the Armenian community had invited her with the objective of helping out a local Armenian school.   

To the question as to why she agreed to go to Turkey and whether she has any fears, she responded: “Why should I not have agreed? The Armenian community invited me and I am going for them. I have no fears. The Armenians will meet me; we will be with the Armenians. They are not savages; what are they supposed to do?”    

Incidentally, Nune Yesayan is heading to Turkey on a concert for the first time. She had received an earlier invitation from Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building—; they had “talked, but it was left incomplete.” Yesayan also noted that she is happy to be going to the concert and she will definitely visit Dink’s grave.