Mehmet Aksoy (sculptor)
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Mehmet Aksoy is a Turkish sculptor. His sculptures often contain sensual figurative elements, but he is strongly rooted in a modernist sensibility with strong conceptual and abstract elements in his w
Aksoy during an event in Bilkent University, March 2012.
Statue of Humanity (2009) under construction in Kars
Memorial to the Unknown Deserter (1989) in Potsdam
Ilhan Selçuk and the Enlightenment Instigators of the Republic Monument, front view
Armenia–Turkey relations
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Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey are officially non-existent and have historically been hostile. Whilst Turkey recognises the Soviet-Era borders of Eastern Armenia, it has refused to es
Mehmet Aksoy (sculptor)
…visible from neighboring Armenia when completed. It was commissioned by Naif Alibeyoğlu, the former mayor of Kars, as a gesture of reconciliation in Armenia–Turkey relations following a 2009 accord to establish formal diplomatic recognition between the two. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described the monument…
Abandoned since 1915, the tenth-century Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island underwent a controversial restoration in 2006, paid for by the Turkish Ministry of Culture.
Fedayee group fighting under the ARF banner. Text in Armenian reads "Azadoutioun gam mah" (Liberty or Death).
The Khor Virap monastery, which dates to the 7th century, lies on the closed Turkish-Armenian border.
Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant