Catholic Armenians fight to regain school in Turkey

Turkey’s Catholic Armenians are waging a legal battle to retrieve the property rights for an Armenian Catholic school that was confiscated by the Foundations Directorate General, despite the fact that it had not been proclaimed under the 1936 Declaration.

“We paid for the building’s purchase, and we are in possession of its title deed. We also have the document [showing] the back-then Istanbul governor’s approval for the purchase, but we are paying rent nonetheless,” Rita Nurnur, head of the Armenian school’s foundation, told the Hürriyet Daily News.