Armenian youth of Los Angeles called on one of the leading basketball players of the LA Lakers Kobe Bryant to break the two year advertising contract with Turkish Airlines.
Turkish Airlines commercial promoting the new Los Angeles to Istanbul flight is to appear on the TV early next year and is supposed to show in nearly 80 countries around the world, including in the U.S. and in Europe, CNBC television channel reports.

Kobe Bryan’s fee was not disclosed.

A former member of the Youth Union of Armenians, now the representative of the Student Union of ARF in Western America Raffi Semerchyan, told Radio Liberty, that young people are going to protest to the basketball star mainly through emails. The essence of the appeal to Kobe Bryant, as an athlete as a person first and foremost to understand what crimes were committed by the Turkish government, Semerchyan explained.

Currently Turkish Airlines is considered one of the most profitable companies in Europe. It sponsors a basketball league games in Europe and is also a sponsor of the football giants like Manchester United and Barcelona.