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A group of intellectuals, led by Writers’ Union Chairman Levon Ananyan, will head to the Georgian capital Tbilisi, on Thursday, to clarify the matter with respect to the sale of great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan’s house-museum, Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosyan said during a press conference on Thursday.
In her words, they receive conflicting information in this regard, and that is why it was decided to send the intellectuals there. Poghosyan also promised to reflect on this matter again, once the intellectuals return from Tbilisi.
To note, it was informed that Hovhannes Tumanyan’s house-museum was to be sold. In the release, which was issued by Tbilisi’s Armenian community, it is noted that a section of the museum was sold to a businessmen, who now wants to sell the house-museum to a Georgian-Turkish company. And the latter plans to turn it into a boarding house for Turks. The company had also proposed Tumanyan’s great-grandson, Alen Tumanyan, to sell the second floor of the house-museum, but its proposal was rejected.
