Baku Accuses Armenia of ‘Looting’ Dadivank Monastery in Occupied Artsakh

Baku Accuses Armenia of ‘Looting’ Dadivank Monastery in Occupied Artsakh

After disparaging the Armenian heritage of the 13th century Gandzasar Monastery last week and presenting its origins as Caucasian Albanian, official Baku has now shifted its focus to the 9th century Dadivank Monastery located in occupied Kelbajar district of Artsakh.

Azerbaijan Claims Indigenous Armenian Dadivank Monastery’s Artifacts Were Stolen, Reports Them to Interpol

Azerbaijan says cultural artifacts allegedly removed from the medieval Dadivank monastery and taken to Armenia have been listed in Interpol’s database of stolen art, opening a new front in a growing dispute over Armenian Christian heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh. Sabina Hajiyeva, head of Azerbaijan’s State Service for the Protection, Development and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, said information about frescoes and khachkars — Armenian carved cr…