ISTANBUL, MAY 20, ARMENPRESS: The Istanbul-based Levant Rotary Club has invited the Yerevan Opera and Ballet Theater to stage in Turkish biggest city Aram Khachaturian’s ballet ‘Gayane’. Barkin Altinok, the Levant Rotary Club chairman, told Anadolu news agency he hopes that cultural exchange would take off the chill from strained relations between the two neighbor nations. He said the 140-member company will perform on June 13 and 14 on the stage of Istanbul Ataturk Cultural Center. The performances will coincide with the 175-th anniversary of establishment of Armenian Bezjian school in Istanbul.
He said Armenians accepted the invitation with joy. “We want to demonstrate that Turks are not opposed to Armenians. What happened in 1915 is in the past. The two nations have to develop bilateral contacts looking forward but not back,” he was quoted by Anadolu as saying.
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