"Church Restoration Raises Hopes For Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation
Rainwater seeps through the conical dome of Akhtamar’s thousand-year-old church, washing away biblical frescoes from one of the finest surviving monuments of ancient Armenian culture. Bullet holes pock the sandstone walls. After a century of neglect and decades of political wrangling, Turkey has begun restoring the church, a renovation that comes as Turkish leaders face intense pressure from the European Union to improve their treatment of minorities.
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