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PROTESTS HELD IN NETHERLANDS AGAINST OPENING OF "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" MONUMENT
Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
April 25, 2014 Friday
April 25--Public Turkic organizations and representatives of the
Azerbaijani diaspora in the Netherlands have held protests against
opening of a monument to so-called Armenian genocide in front of the
Armenian church in the city of Almelo, Azerbaijani State Committee
for Work with Diaspora said on April 25.
During the protest action held in front of the building of the
Almelo municipality, leaders and representatives of the Turkic public
organizations made speeches condemning the opening of the monument.
The permission was given only for opening a monument to Armenians,
while later a "genocide" inscription was made on the monument,
according to Ilhan Ashkin, President of the Dutch Azerbaijan-Turkey
Cultural Association.
Ashkin went on to add that the Turkic public organizations and
representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Netherlands are
ready to protest until the monument is destroyed.
The protesters have appealed to the municipality of the Almelo city
regarding the issue.
Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that Turkey's predecessor the
Ottoman Empire allegedly carried out "genocide" against the Armenians
living in Anatolia in 1915. While strengthening the efforts to promote
the so-called genocide in the world, Armenians have achieved its
recognition by the parliaments of some countries.
From: Baghdasarian
Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
April 25, 2014 Friday
April 25--Public Turkic organizations and representatives of the
Azerbaijani diaspora in the Netherlands have held protests against
opening of a monument to so-called Armenian genocide in front of the
Armenian church in the city of Almelo, Azerbaijani State Committee
for Work with Diaspora said on April 25.
During the protest action held in front of the building of the
Almelo municipality, leaders and representatives of the Turkic public
organizations made speeches condemning the opening of the monument.
The permission was given only for opening a monument to Armenians,
while later a "genocide" inscription was made on the monument,
according to Ilhan Ashkin, President of the Dutch Azerbaijan-Turkey
Cultural Association.
Ashkin went on to add that the Turkic public organizations and
representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Netherlands are
ready to protest until the monument is destroyed.
The protesters have appealed to the municipality of the Almelo city
regarding the issue.
Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that Turkey's predecessor the
Ottoman Empire allegedly carried out "genocide" against the Armenians
living in Anatolia in 1915. While strengthening the efforts to promote
the so-called genocide in the world, Armenians have achieved its
recognition by the parliaments of some countries.
From: Baghdasarian