In response to the petition by the foundation of Saint Giragos Armenian Church in Turkey’s Diyarbakir, and concerning the return of the city’s 190 pieces of real estate that once belonged to the Armenians, the Diyarbakir Foundations’ Department reached a positive decision on seventeen such real estates.     

In line with the church register, from 1910 to 1921, a total of 190 pieces of real estate in Diyarbakir’s twenty districts belonged to the Armenians, Ozgurhabergazetesi website of Turkey reports.

As a result of the studies that were conducted, seventeen pieces of real estate—with an area of 15,000 square meters—, which belonged to the Armenians, was discovered in the Sehitlik Koskler district of Diyarbakir. But difficulties arose in connection with the return of these areas, since there are illegal structures and public buildings in these areas.    

Foundation chairman Vartkes Ergun Ayik noted that there are difficulties in connection with transferring these real estates in the names of Armenians. He stressed, however, that if these real estates are not returned with the conventional process, they will appeal to the court.