The decision to put the cross on the dome of Holy Cross Church has already been made by the Government, according to Kaan Soyak, the Co-Chairman of Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council (TABDC).

“My understanding, there are some delays due to either domestic political reasons which involved whole Turkey in the last several months and also technical reasons, because the weight of the cross is about 300 kilograms. But there is no question of putting or not putting the cross. This has already been decided by the Government. It is going to be put very soon,” the TABDC Co-Chairman told PanARMENIAN.Net.

“All of Turkey has been focused on referendum in the last several months and Turkey is passing through a very sensitive period of her history as one can imagine. Please also bear in mind that the opposition parties of Turkey are openly against any step towards normalization of the relations between Armenia and Turkey.

Armenia is perhaps not participating in the liturgy "physically" for some reasons unknown to me but I am very sure that their hearts will be there in Akthamar during the ceremony,” Kaan Soyak said.