“We said: OK, they came to the earthquake, they helped, the Foreign Minister came, and we thanked them. These are human things, outside of politics, but now you are putting up a statue of the terrorists who martyred my diplomats; I cannot accept that,” the Turkish Foreign Minister said Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, reacting to the opening of the fountain memorial dedicated to the Knights of National Dignity who carried out the “Nemesis” operation of the Armenian avengers.
Çavuşoğlu distorts the facts because the Nemesis operation was never directed against diplomats. The diplomats were killed by ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia) fighters. And the “Nemesis” operation was directed against the coordinators and implementers of the Armenian Genocide,” explained Meline Anumyan, the guest of Aravot’s “Areresum” (“Confrontation”) program and Turkologist, Candidate of historical sciences.
There have been several statues of Soghomon Tehlirian in Armenia for a long time, and there are many monuments of the Armenian Fedayi figures who took part in the hayduk struggle against the Turks. Meline Anumyan answered the question: why was there no such noise before Turkey did not apply economic sanctions? “There were some responses, unofficially.
They take the installation of these statues very hard, forgetting that they installed statues of criminals and continue to glorify them. And that propaganda occupies a very large place in Turkish speech.
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