The monument erected in Turkey’s Kars city symbolizing the Turkish-Armenian friendship will be divided into parts, said Kars municipality head Nevzat Bozkush, APA agency reports. According to him, this work was scheduled to start in March: “We would not have been interested if the monument had been in the other place,” he said.

Bozkush noted that the tender would be issued for removal of the monument. The winner company will remove the monument: “The crane will keep the monument in order not to damage the other monuments and the graveyard. The tool will cut it. In this way we will divide the monument into parts and take away from there. If the sculpture wants to take this monument and erect it in the other place, we can give them the divided parts,” he said.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, City Council of Kars decided by a majority vote to demolish the monument dedicated to the Armenian-Turkish friendship, branded by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as “monstrous”.

In an interview with the Turkish Hurriyet, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated that the monument of Armenian-Turkish friendship in Kars is “monstrous” and it needs to be annihilated.

Erdogan said that he used the word “monster” on the monument. He said that he is not aware of the significance of this monument, but to assess the monument one does not need an education of an art critic.