Joint Statement

His Holiness Karekin II Catholicos of All Armenians, Holy See of Etchmiadzin His Holiness Aram I Catholicos of Cilicia, Holy See of Cilicia   We demand that Turkey return our confiscated Churches and Church Properties     In 2015, Armenians living in the Republics of Armenia and Karabagh and in the diaspora will commemorate the…

“We demand that Turkey return our churches and all other confiscated properties” His Holiness Aram I

On Wednesday 24 April 2013, after the Holy Liturgy and the Memorial Service in front of the Martyr’s Chapel, His Holiness Aram I addressed the thousands of people who had come to honour their martyrs.    The Catholicos said, “The memory of our one-and-a-half million martyrs of the 1915 Genocide, organized and implemented by Ottoman…