Serdar Unsal, who heads the Azerbaijan Home association in Igdir, Turkey, has protested the city mayor’s statement in connection with April 24.    

Unsal said that Igdir Mayor Saziye Onder issued a statement, by way of the media, and condemned the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.

The Azerbaijani activist stressed that making such a statement in Igdir pursues other objectives, and claimed that the Armenians had committed genocide against the Turks in Igdir.    

Igdir’s Kurdish Mayor Saziye Onder had released a statement on the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, condemned the latter, and stressed that the Turkish authorities’ anti-Armenian policy also continued after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.      

The mayor of Igdir had noted that not only were the Armenians slaughtered en masse during the Genocide, but their schools, churches and cemeteries were destroyed, and the Armenian’s belongings were plundered.