"Opening hearts to Armenians
YUSUF KANLI
My first visit to Van was back in October 1983, during the election campaign for the Nov. 6 elections that brought the Motherland Party, or ANAP, of late Turgut Özal to government with a landslide victory. It was on that trip that I saw for the first time the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross, or the Surp Haç Church, on Akdamar Island at Lake Van."
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