The Commission for the Fight against Racism and Discrimination will host a cultural event called “Traces of Armenian Culture in Istanbul” within the frames of Human Rights Week in Istanbul, as Evrensel newspaper reports to “ArmenPress”.

The December 15 event will include a speech by journalist, architect Zakaria Mildanoglu. In a notification about the event, the latter briefly informed the residents of Armenian districts that used to be referred to as “the districts of gyavurs” and mentioned that those districts were composed of the lower, middle and upper regions and had an Armenian market.

Mildanoglu informed that before 1915, Armenians had nearly 200 schools and 3,000 churches on these lands and that those schools and churches represented the wealth of the culture in the districts. “When we consider all this, we ask ourselves the following question: What happened to them? There are no Armenians left in these districts of Anatolia,” Mildanoglu mentioned.