The lawsuit against Turkey for the return of the Catholicosate of Sis continues, announced the office of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The respective statement reads as follows, in particular: “On the threshold of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the lawsuit filed by the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia against the state of Turkey with the demand for the return of the Catholicosate of Sis continues in the same course. We informed the children of our people about important milestones in this direction, considering the aforementioned lawsuit as the lawsuit of our people and our church, as well as the first and bold step in the legal sphere of national demands.

Indeed, after the preliminary instances of the Turkish courts, where having been rejected by the examination, it is now in the cassation instance. The next step will be the Constitutional Court [of Turkey], after which we will petition to the European Court of Human Rights."