Turkey Releases Armenian Quran Translations

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) said it has published several thousand copies of a translation of the Quran in Armenian.

Yuksel Salman, head of Diyanet’s department for religious publications, said the measure was taken at the request of Turkey’s Armenian community, AFP reported.
He said the aim has been to provide Armenian speakers with accurate and first-hand information about tenets of Islam.
In the first stage, 4000 copies of the rendering have been printed and more are planned to be published, the official went on to say.
Turkey has some 60,000 Armenian citizens and there are also 60,000 non-citizen Armenians living in the country.
Diyanet has previously published translations of the Noble Quran in 15 other languages, including Kurdish, whose speakers make up some 20 percent of Turkey’s population.