In Turkey, 3 people climbed onto the wall at the entrance of the Armenian Surp Dikavor Church in the Kadıköy district of Constantinople, and turning on loud music, began to dance around the cross.
Although there were police officers near the church, no measures were taken against the citizens who desecrated the holy site.
The video of this incident has appeared on the internet and has drawn severe criticism and condemnation from Turkey’s Armenians and representatives of other Christian communities.
Garо Paylan, the Armenian member of Turkey’s parliament, has condemned what happened, and it is also expected that the Armenian institutions of Constantinople will do the same today and, going further, demand that the country’s interior ministry institutions open an investigation into the matter.
