“The Turks are all over the Goris-Kapan interstate route. They’re putting up a sign. Can you see what it says? It says ‘Welcome to Azerbaijan.’ Now try to tell us that this isn’t Syunik, that our borders are secure, that this was the right decision, and that Turks should have written ‘Welcome to Hell’ in Zangezur. Be proud, you dishonorable people,” the deputy mayor of Goris, Irina Yolyan, wrote on Facebook.
During a phone call with Aravot Daily, the other deputy mayor, Menua Hovsepyan, who was in Vorotan, said that after the sign was displayed, armed Azerbaijanis guarded the area so that Armenians couldn’t take the sign down. “But we have to take it down and throw it away. We can’t let it stay like that,” Hovsepyan said. According to him, “None of the higher-ups in the government responded to this.”
“Are there any men in government? If so, let us know. We have issues to resolve,” Menua Hovsepyan said.
Armen Davtyan
