Opening of Armenian Genocide Square began in Haifa

ArmInfo.An event dedicated to the opening of a square in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began in Haifa

As political scientist Alexander Tsinker reported on his Facebook  page, those present honored the memory of the victims of the Genocide  with a minute of silence, after which Haifa Mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem  and Armenian Ambassador Arman Hakobyan spoke.  It should be noted  that earlier it became known that the authorities of the Israeli city  of Haifa decided to erect a monument to the victims of the Armenian  Genocide on one of the central squares of the city.

In this regard, Turkish Ambassador to Israel Sakir Ozkan Torunlar  wrote an official letter to the Minister of Culture and Sports of  Israel, Miki Zohar, asking for help in preventing the initiative to  erect a monument.  Zohar forwarded the letter to the Israeli Foreign  Ministry, where consultations were held on this subject.  The  leadership of Haifa, however, did not heed the demands for the  cancellation of the installation of the monument by the Turkish side.  The author of the initiative to erect a monument to the Armenian  Genocide is one of the former MPs from the "Meretz" party, who  several times came forward with unsuccessful initiatives on the issue  of the Armenian Genocide in the Israeli Parliament. We also add that  Israel has not officially recognized the Armenian Genocide in the  Ottoman Empire.