ISTANBUL, 9 OCTOBER, NOYAN TAPAN-ARMENIANS TODAY: The Turkish village of Vakfl is the only village with solely Armenian residents. The locals are hot-tempered and enthusiastic people and these days they are waiting for the signing of the Turkey-Armenia Protocols and the football match to be held in Bursa with high emotions and great interest, as reported by "Sabah" daily correspondent Savash Ay. According to Ay, village head Perch Gartun recalled that former president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan is also from the native Vakfl village. A celebration is scheduled to take place in the village in a couple of days. The villagers have invited 20 university students each from Istanbul, Ankara and Armenia to follow-up on the signing of the Protocols, watch the football match and then send their message of friendship to the world. The average age of villagers is 50 because all youth have chosen to live in Istanbul or have traveled abroad. The villagers are involved in agriculture. There was a time when Armenians were living in seven of the 22 villages in this region. The novel "Forty Days of Musa Dagh" by Franz Werfel made this territory famous and many tourists visit the village. The village has a church, but no priest. The only school in the village was closed down due to lack of students. The five-six schoolchildren attend the seminary of Samanadagh. The villagers speak Armenian, Turkish and Arabic and they are all literate.

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