The assembly of Turkey’s Kars Municipality will make a decision on removal of the monument symbolizing the Turkish-Armenian friendship on February 1 or 2, Kars Municipality Public Relations Manager Ozlem Ozturk told.
According to him, the technical calculations will be conducted and the monument will be removed after the decision: “We had an issue to move the monument to the other place. Thus, Karshiyaka municipality of Izmir city wanted this monument from our municipality. The head of Karshiyaka municipality has also come here. They wanted to erect this monument in a park in Karshiyaka. But that municipality sent us a report that they can not carry this monument. Thus, the monument will be removed without carrying to the other place”.
The “Monument of Mankind” symbolizing the Turkish-Armenian friendship was started to be built in 2008. Its construction has not been completed yet. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told municipality and other officials during his visit to Kars that all strange constructions contradicting the historic-architectural styles should be removed. He called it as “ugly monument”.
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