In 1932 Mesrob Naroyan , the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople , filed a lawsuit for the return of the property , but the Istanbul Municipality argued that he had been a legal non-entity in Turkey since 1916 ( the position of Armenian Patriarchate had been officially suspended in 1916 as part of the Armenian Genocide ) and therefore had no title to the land , even though he still functioned at the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople in Kumkapı , Istanbul
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Pangaltı Armenian Cemetery