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Armenian signer’s request to be buried in Turkey:

A report entitled "People of Turkish origin must be granted citizenship" in Hurriyet (11.09.09) says that a group of Armenian and Turkish intellectuals will today send a joint letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, demanding that everybody who can prove that he or she is of Turkish origin should be granted Turkish citizenship and be allowed to be buried in Turkey after his or her death abroad. According to the report, the letter will be sent to Erdogan because the Turkish Government did not allow Aram Dikran, an Armenian singer and composer, to be laid to rest in Diyarbakir despite his will.