BILL ENVISAGING TO ERECT MONUMENT TO ENVER-PASHA IN BAKU<br /> SQUARE SUBMITTED TO AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT<br />


BILL ENVISAGING TO ERECT MONUMENT TO ENVER-PASHA IN BAKU
SQUARE SUBMITTED TO AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT

  • 11-04-2006 17:45:00   |   |  World News
ISTANBUL, APRIL 11, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Kudret Hasankuliyev, one of the leaders of the People's Front opposition party of Azerbaijan, submitted a bill to the country's parliament demanding that a monument to one of the chief organizers of the Armenian Genocide, Enver-pasha be erected in Baku square. According to the "Marmara" daily of Istanbul, the Azeri parliamentary deputy "motivated" his proposal saying that it was Enver-pasha who saved the Azeri people "from the genocide committed by the Armenians". The Azerbaijani parliamentarian demanded that the country's government remove the monuments to Lenin and other Soviet leaders in Baku and erect a monument to Dede Korkut in their place. Oktay Asadov, Speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament, submitted the proposals for discussion to the respective parliamentary commission.
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