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Armenian youth groups protest concert of Russian pop star
Agence France Presse -- English
March 25, 2005 Friday 6:38 AM GMT
YEREVAN March 25 -- Some 30 youth and student groups voiced outrage at
the forthcoming April 8 concert of Russia's pop singer Filipp Kirkorov
for what they claim is his pro-Turkish, anti-Armenian attitude.
"Kirkorov has an obvious anti-Armenian, and moreover, pro-Turkish
attitude, which showed in a recent incident when he publicly insulted
an Armenian reporter, slighting her background," the groups said in
a protest letter made public late Thursday.
As such, the concert could prove "amoral" if held on the eve of the
90th anniversary of the Armenian massacre of 1915 which Turkey still
refuses to consider genocide.
The letter's signatories warned that they planned to meet Kirkorov --
who pledged to end his stage career after the insulted Irina Aroyan
took him to court -- at the airport with slogans and eggs in hand.
Agence France Presse -- English
March 25, 2005 Friday 6:38 AM GMT
YEREVAN March 25 -- Some 30 youth and student groups voiced outrage at
the forthcoming April 8 concert of Russia's pop singer Filipp Kirkorov
for what they claim is his pro-Turkish, anti-Armenian attitude.
"Kirkorov has an obvious anti-Armenian, and moreover, pro-Turkish
attitude, which showed in a recent incident when he publicly insulted
an Armenian reporter, slighting her background," the groups said in
a protest letter made public late Thursday.
As such, the concert could prove "amoral" if held on the eve of the
90th anniversary of the Armenian massacre of 1915 which Turkey still
refuses to consider genocide.
The letter's signatories warned that they planned to meet Kirkorov --
who pledged to end his stage career after the insulted Irina Aroyan
took him to court -- at the airport with slogans and eggs in hand.