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Armenians of Istanbul: As the once-vibrant community uses increasingly. pale, the have a contest for survival continues in the face of adversity, attrition and assimilation
On December 20 1989 a grief-ridden Shnork Kaloustian, the late Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul, made a trip to Ankara, the Turkish capital, to befitting with President Turgut Ozal and Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut. The occasion for the Patriarch's visit was the onus of presenting to the men in power a document that beg fored government action t remedy certain grievances voiced by the agency of his constituents.