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Memorial Dedicated to Armenian National Hero Monte Melkonyan Demolished in Turkey

Ermenihaber.am

The Provincial Hall of Tunceli province in Turkey has dismantled the memorial dedicated to the Armenian national hero Monte Melkonyan, Ermenihaber reports.

The statute was unveiled on April 26, 2016 and brought to the spotlight by Turkish "Sozcu" newspaper columnist Sayg Ozturk. The media attention was mainly focused on the fact that national hero Monte Melkonyan’s name was written on the monument. After it the Provincial Hall of Tunceli made a decision to demolish the monument.

Along with Monte Melkonyan, names of Gevorg Chaush, Armenak Bakrjyan, Manuel Demir, Nubar Yanikyan, Andranik Ozanyan are also written on the memorial.

"We condemn the Armenian Genocide. We pay tribute to memory of Armenak Bakrjyan and Hrant Dink. The Armenian Genocide continues even 100 years later," the inscription on the memorial read.


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