Armenians in Greece protest in front of Turkish and Azerbaijani Embassies

YEREVAN, APRIL 25, ARMENPRESS. The representatives of the Armenian community of Greece held a protest in front of Turkish and Azerbaijani consulates to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

By the initiative of the “Youth Union” of Greece hundreds of Armenians demanded to move the struggle for the Armenian Question and the reaffirmation of the right and justice on April 23 and 24 on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the military operations and hostilities unleashed by the Azerbaijani side. “Armenpress” reports, Athens “Free day” newspaper informs that except from Armenian young people, the representatives of Greece-Pontus organizations and Assyrians also participated in the protest.

Protest participants with Armenian and Greece flags, special T-shirts, posters, loudspeakers and different slogans firstly moved to the Embassy of Turkey, however, the police stooped them. As “Free day” newspaper reports, the police did not fulfill its promise to let the the Armenian National Committee to held the protest. The protesters, as a sign of complaint against the police, burned the Turkish flag.

The participants decided to continue the protest in other square and on their way back they stopped in front of the Embassy of Azerbaijan.