An Armenian couple got engaged in Sourb Khach Church (Saint Cross) in Van, eastern Turkey.The engagement ceremony took place after the Sunday’s one-off mass served almost a century after Ottoman Turks forced Armenians to leave their homelands in Western Armenia. According to Turkish news agency Anadolu, the engagement service was conducted by the leader of the spiritual council of the Constantinople Patriarchate of the Armenian Church.Speaking to local Turkish daily Hurriyet after the engagement ceremony Tamar Aljali (the bride) and Avinis Bicakci, descendents of two Istanbul-based well-known Armenian-Turkish families, said they were very happy to have their engagement in Sourb Khach.
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