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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has launched a project to conserve an ancient Armenian cathedral and church in what is seen as a gesture of reconciliation toward its neighbor.
Turkey and Armenia have been locked in a bitter dispute for decades over the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in the last years of the Ottoman Empire. Efforts to normalize relations have been dealt a setback by the conflict between Armenia and Azerbai jan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Turkey, however, says it is committed to improving ties and has already restored the 10th-century Akdamar church. It has also allowed once-yearly worship at the site as a gesture to Armenia and its own ethnic Armenian minority.
