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

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 11 2006

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.