We are talking about the opening in April of a monument to the participants of Operation Nemesis, which was directly declared by the Turkish Foreign Minister. The descendants of these people had previously requested the installation of such a monument.
It should be remembered that we are talking about the events of the beginning of the 20th century. In 1915-1916, in the Ottoman Empire, of which Turkey is the successor, a massive oppression of Armenians took place under the pretext that they posed a threat to the state. It all started with layoffs from the civil service, then the persecution began to intensify, many Armenian settlements were devastated, thousands of people were killed or deported. Subsequently, some countries recognized these events as genocide.
After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, a tribunal was organized in the country under pressure from members of the Entente, during which a number of people involved in executions and deportations were convicted of “crimes against humanity”. “.
However, this did not satisfy the Armenians themselves. Representatives of the Dashnaktsutyun party (at that time the Republic of Armenia already existed) came up with the idea of organizing a retaliatory action, called Nemesis. A list of 650 people involved in the tragic events has been compiled. However, the participants in the operation managed to track down and kill only a few people, but among them were several pashas of the then ruling triumvirate and a number of former high officials.
Since Turkey refuses to recognize the Armenian Genocide, it considers these attacks to be terrorist attacks, and therefore the opening of the monument to those involved in the killings has been called a provocation by Cavusoglu. “If they continue in the same spirit, we will take additional measures,” assured the Turkish Foreign Minister.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, for his part, called the closure of Turkish airspace for Armenian planes a problem for the whole country. According to him, the decision to erect the monument was taken by the Yerevan Municipality so that people would not consider the current authorities as traitors.
“But let’s think about the benefits and damages this memorial has brought to our state?” Pashinyan asked, adding that Armenia has almost never been driven by its economic interests, but is driven by its emotions.
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