Saint Hovhannes Armenian church has been demolished in Turkey, with an Islamic school and a student hostel to be built on the site.

Representatives of Siirt city’s branch of Turkey’s human rights union described the destruction of the Armenian church and construction of a new highway on the site of Armenian cemeteries in Eruh district as an act of violence.

Armenian Genocide survivors and Eruh residents who converted to Islam still visit the churches, demokrathaber.net reported.