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ATATURK BUST ERECTED IN BUDAPEST, IMMEDIATELY VANDALIZED
ARMENPRESS
8 October, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 8, ARMENPRESS: Barely two days after it was unveiled
on September 29, the bronze bust of Kemal Ataturk was doused with red
paint by unknown people in Budapest's District XIX. As Armenpresss
reports citing Politics hu, the incident came amid continued strained
relations between Hungary and Armenia over the extradition by the
former of an Azeri military officer who killed his Armenia fellow
student in Hungary in 2004. The unveiling was preceded by strong
protests from the local Armenian community, while the district
government had been urged by the Foreign Ministry to rethink the plan.
Ataturk, Turkey's founding father and first prime minister, is seen by
many Armenians as being responsible for the 1915 genocide against the
country's Armenia community, in which more than a million Armenians
were systematically killed by the Ottoman government.
ARMENPRESS
8 October, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 8, ARMENPRESS: Barely two days after it was unveiled
on September 29, the bronze bust of Kemal Ataturk was doused with red
paint by unknown people in Budapest's District XIX. As Armenpresss
reports citing Politics hu, the incident came amid continued strained
relations between Hungary and Armenia over the extradition by the
former of an Azeri military officer who killed his Armenia fellow
student in Hungary in 2004. The unveiling was preceded by strong
protests from the local Armenian community, while the district
government had been urged by the Foreign Ministry to rethink the plan.
Ataturk, Turkey's founding father and first prime minister, is seen by
many Armenians as being responsible for the 1915 genocide against the
country's Armenia community, in which more than a million Armenians
were systematically killed by the Ottoman government.