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The Education Commission of the Union of Armenian Foundations (ERVAB) held its regular monthly meeting. The meeting addressed progress on the Armenian language and Religious Culture and Ethics curricula requested by the Ministry of National Education. According to the commission’s statement, the Religious Studies curriculum has been submitted to the Board of Education and Discipline. Revisions to the Armenian language course curriculum are ongoing.

The Hrant Dink Foundation’s Western Armenian Conversation Workshops will begin on October 14. The 10 week workshops are intended for participants who have a basic knowledge of Western Armenian and want to improve their conversational skills.

The History Foundation (Tarih Vakfı) is organizing a 10-week seminar examining the Ottoman Empire’s multilingual and multi-script written culture through Turkish texts written in the Armenian script. The seminar, led by Orhun Yalçın, will begin on October 14.

In an excavation work in Harput province of Elazığ, a 165-years-old Armenian inscription is found. It is thought to be a tombstone and deciphering works continue.

Held in Cadaval district of Portugal, “Wikicamp 2016” enabled young people to write Wikipedia articles in Western Armenian and to express themselves. Sevan Değirmenciyan writes his experience in the camp.

At the entrance of Tuzluca province of Iğdır, there was a sign that reads “Welcome” and “Good bye” in Turkish, English, Kurdish and Armenian. Now, the Armenian part is removed.

After the MA program in Syriac Language and Literature that Mardin Artuklu University has been offering for six years now, preparations for launching an undergraduate program in Syriac Language and Literature within the Faculty of Arts were started. The next step is to launch departments of Armenian Language and Literature and Hebrew Language and Literature.