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The Armenian Ministry of Culture tries to get more specific information about the sale of Hovhannes Tumanyan’s Tbilisi apartment, Ministry spokesperson Gayane Durgaryan told a Panorama.am reporter, when asked whether the Ministry is going to take any action in connection with the sale of the great poet’s apartment in Tbilisi.

We will remind that the Armenians’ Union of Tbilisi made a statement calling for saving Hovhannes Tumanyan’s apartment.

“The historical building was transferred to a businessman back in the 90s. The businessman put the apartment on sale, and the “GeoTuran” Turkish-Georgian joint venture is going to purchase the apartment to turn it into a hostel for Turkish workers. Company’s management has even asked poet’s grand-grandchild Alina Tumanyan, who lives in the second part of the building, to sell her territory also, but she refused to,” the statement said.