Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has responded to an inquiry on whether Yerevan would accept renaming a Turkish-Armenian border checkpoint after Mehmed Talaat Pasha, one of the main orchestrators of the Armenian Genocide.
The Ministry issued its comment regarding a bill proposing to name the Turkey-Armenia border checkpoint after Mehmed Talaat Pasha, emphasizing: “In the process of normalizing Armenia-Turkey relations, the Republic of Armenia takes into account the official positions and decisions of the Government of the Republic of Turkey,” reports Sputnik Armenia.
The bill was submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Milli Majlis) by İYİ Party leader and MP Musavat Dervişoğlu, supported by 28 fellow MPs from the same nationalist political faction.
Talaat Pasha was one of the chief organizers of the Armenian Genocide. On March 15, 1921, he was assassinated in Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian, a representative of the Armenian national liberation movement. In a German court, Tehlirian declared: “I killed a man, but I am not a murderer.” The court acquitted him.
