The Surp Hovhannes (Saint John) Armenian church, which is located in Eruh Region of Turkey’s Siirt Province where Armenians used to live, is demolished and a dormitory for girls is being built at the site.    

During a press conference, the persons in charge of the Siirt chapter of Turkey’s Human Rights Association announced that the destruction of the church and the construction of a road on the Armenian graves on the road of Eruh are a barbarity against the faith of the Armenian people, Hyetert website reports.

In this connection, human rights activist Serdar Batur showed the picture of the destroyed Armenian church’s Armenian language-engraved stones, which are used in the construction of the aforesaid dormitory. He noted that the Eruh residents, who were converted to Islam, still visit the area of that church and light candles there.    

Another human rights activist, Zana Aksu, stated that there is an attempt to keep fresh in Siirt the idea of the Armenia Genocide, which continues ever since 1915.