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ATATURK BUST ERECTED IN BUDAPEST, IMMEDIATELY VANDALIZED
Politics.hu
Oct 8 2012
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.
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.
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.
http://www.politics.hu/20121008/ataturk-bust-erected-in-budapest-immediately-vandalized/
Politics.hu
Oct 8 2012
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.
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.
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.
http://www.politics.hu/20121008/ataturk-bust-erected-in-budapest-immediately-vandalized/