Tuesday, May 26 2020 11:19

ArmInfo.. Turkey resorts to the next step in denying justice. This is how the Armenian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Ashot Hovakimyan reacted to the response of the Turkish Foreign Ministry to the adoption by the Czech Parliament of a resolution on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

At the same time, the Armenian diplomat stated that this is not the  first and not the last such attack by the Turkish side on the  international recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

"Turkey resorts to the next step in denying justice, thus widening  the gap between itself and universal values. Denial has no future, no  matter what it is packed into. The more efforts the Turkish  authorities make to deny the truth, the more coherently the truth is  laying its own path, becoming public knowledge, " Hovakimyan said.

At the same time, the Armenian diplomat added that the work of the  sculptor Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff, dedicated to the holy knights  who saved Christian captives from the hands of the Ottomans in the  Middle Ages, was installed on the famous Charles Bridge in Prague in  1714.

"Below the statue of the knights you can find a statue of a Turk with  a scimitar, which guards Christians suffering in prison. This  sculpture has become a topic for many Prague talks and stories. It is  also worth noting that tourists are warned not to pass this monument  at night, while parents mention this monument to scare children who  do not want to sleep, saying that if they don't sleep, then the Turks  will come for them.  I'm sorry that little has changed over the past  300 years and to this day Turkey continues to speak the language of  threats, "Hovakimyan summed up.

The Czech Senate at a plenary meeting on May 20 unanimously adopted a  resolution dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the end of World War  II and condemning crimes against humanity committed during the two  world wars, including the Armenian Genocide. The initiator of the  above resolution was the Vice President of the Senate of the Czech  Republic Milan Stech .

Ankara reacted nervously to this step of the Czech legislative body,  saying that this step indicates that the Czech Republic retains a  "perverse mentality based on baseless one-sided arguments," which in  2017 caused damage to bilateral relations.

To note, on April 25, 2017, the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech  Parliament adopted a resolution on the recognition and condemnation  of the Armenian Genocide. Before recognition by the Czech legislature  of this crime against humanity, Czech President Milos Zeman has  repeatedly made statements condemning the Armenian Genocide in  Ottoman Turkey. According to him, the Armenian Genocide is one of the  worst atrocities of our time.