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American Turk and Azerbaijani Diasporas protest â€œArmenian genocideâ€ monument in Boston

07 September 2010 08:45 (UTC +04:00)

The Diasporas told APAâ€™s correspondent that Armenian officials and Patriarch Garegin II will attend the opening ceremony of a so called monument to the victims of the Armenian genocide in the heart of Boston on September 9th. The monument is made in the form of 12-sided prism, each side of which has the names of a few Turkish towns cited as Armenian one.

The Turkish and Azerbaijani Diasporas said they are holding protest actions and appeal to the cityâ€™s authorities and the state authorities.

â€œWe are scheduling meetings with the Boston administration, Massachusetts administration, the Senator and the central government in Washington DC. This must be stopped, as itâ€™s not accepted. They killed thousands and thousands Azerbaijanis and never were punished for that and now they open a monument to a fake thingâ€, - said Sayid Gasymov, a representative of the Azerbaijani Diaspora.

â€œThe Armenian Diaspora canâ€™t go on doing this like this, weâ€™ll protest this. And why do they write the names of our towns on this so called monument? This is shamelessâ€, said Mehmet Artuk. He reminded that Armenians are also planning to open a Museum to the genocide. â€œAll these steps kill the last attempts to set peace between our nationsâ€, he added.

Another Turkish Diaspora representative, Ibrakhim Shukur said that just recently the state of Massachusetts government ruled out any chance to ban the â€œArmenian genocideâ€ issue from the history text books. â€œThis shows that the government of this state is bias, weâ€™ll bring that to the attention of the governmentâ€, he said.