Turkey Starts Dismantling Armenia Reconciliation Monument

Turkey has started demolishing the giant monumentin the city of Kars meant to promote reconciliation between it and Armenia.

Demolition had been slated to start Monday but was postponed because of strong winds in Kars, a city in eastern Turkey located near the Armenian border. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently called the monument a “freak” and demanded its demolition.

The co-president of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, Helene Flautre already called the demolition a disturbing reality.

“The demolition of the unfinished monument, in fact, is a censorship against art. That monument used to be a project towards Armenian-Turkish relations, while having it demolished, the message of the statue becomes ineffective,” Turkish “Hurriyet” quotes Flautre as saying.

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