Fairfield Municipality in Sydney, Australia approved erection of a so called “Assyrian genocide” monumentinthe park of the municipality.
Efforts of Turkish Community in Australiawere not enough toprevent approval of erection of so called monument.
500 Turkish-Australian held a protest demonstration before the meeting in City Hall for decision on erection of the monument. At the same time, there were Assyrian people on the other side of police cordon, waving Assyrian and Armenian flags.
A delegation of 10 representatives from both Turkish and Assyrian parties entered to the meeting hall at 19:00. The Head of Turkish Delegation, Chairman of NSW Turkish Organizations Council Dursun Candemir returned in a few minutes and announced that they were not let to express their opinion about the issue. “The resolution is approved on consensus,” said he.
Assyrians in Australia are supported by Armenian and Greek Diaspora organizations and they aim recongition of so called Assyrian genocide by NSW State and Federal Government of Australia.
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