DIYARBAKIR. – Mayor Osman Baydemir of Diyarbakir, Turkey, received a group of businesswoman from Armenia, who had arrived in the city to cooperate with their Turkish colleagues (PHOTOS). 

And Baydemir welcomed the Armenian businesswoman with roses, Armenian News-NEWS.am’s reporter informed from Diyarbakir. 

Armenian delegation’s head, “Women’s’ Forum” organization’s chairwoman Lilit Avetisyan and Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia’s “Support for Normalizing Armenia-Turkey Relations” Program Coordinator Armen Melkonyan presented this program. In Avetisyan’s words, cooperation between Armenian and Turkish businesswomen will contribute to improve relations between the two societies.    

In his turn, Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir noted that he welcomes such projects, and stressed: 

“One of the important results of you being here is that in this way you assist in establishing peace. After a certain period of time, cultural and trade relations will facilitate the process of achieving peace.”  

And reflecting on the events of 1915, Baydemir stated that Diyarbakir was a city with diverse cultures, languages and religions, and these events dealt a heavy blow to Diyarbakir. In his words, deep in its soul today’s generation condemns the tragic events that unrolled one-hundred years ago.  

“Today’s generation wishes to extend its hand in brotherhood and believes that borders will become meaningless in a foreseeable future. The new generation believes that they will live together and in brotherhood,” noted Osman Baydemir.    

At the end of the meeting, Lilit Avetisyan presented to Diyarbakir’s Mayor a 20-year-old Armenian brandy, on behalf of the Armenian delegations, and, in his turn, Osman Baydemir presented to the Armenian delegation a frame with the image of Diyarbakir’s Saint Giragos Armenian Church, which was restored in the year past.