Ex-mayor defends erection of Nemesis Monument in Yerevan
Former Yerevan Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan, who is currently an advisor to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, has defended the installation of the Nemesis Monument in Yerevan.
The monument erected in the Armenian capital on 25 April pays tribute to participants of Operation Nemesis, a 1920s program of assassinations of Ottoman Turkish perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
Turkey closed its airspace to Armenian flights heading to a third destination in response to the unveiling of the monument. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced later that Turkey would take additional steps against Armenia if the Nemesis Monument was not dismantled.
“Of course, I was aware of the installation of the Nemesis Monument in Yerevan, but I didn’t tell the prime minister about it,” Sargsyan told reporters on Wednesday.
He stressed Nemesis “is a historical fact”.
"Is the Turkish government going to force us to remove this information from the textbooks as well? I believe that they should not interfere in our internal affairs," the former mayor said.
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