YEREVAN. – About a dozen people held a demonstration Wednesday outside the US Embassy in Armenia.

They demanded that the US condemn the actions by Turkey, a NATO member, in Syria’s predominantly Armenian-populated town of Kessab (PHOTOS). 

“We are here to raise our concerns about the Kessab-Armenian population’s deportations, in which the Turkish military forces took part,” initiative member Levon Hovhannisyan told reporters.

In his words, although the US has stated that it is concerned about what is taking place in Kessab, it has made no statement condemning Turkey. 

Shortly thereafter, US Deputy Chief of Mission Clark Price approached the protesters, listened to their demands and to what is occurring in Kessab, and assured that he will inform the ambassador about everything he had heard and seen. 

In the early morning on March 21, armed militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra Islamic terrorist group infiltrated into northern Syria’s Latakia Governorate, which is predominantly inhabited by Armenians and Alawites, from four directions. Two large groups of terrorists had launched the attack from Turkey. About 600 Kessab-Armenian families are currently sheltered in Latakia city. On March 23, Turkish fighter planes downed a Syrian military aircraft that was conducting a mission against the Islamic terrorists in Kessab. A group of Armenia parliament members recently visited Syria to assess the situation in the region.

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