Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled his trip to Argentina, as Buenos Aires officials called off permission to put up a monument to Ataturk in one of the parks, reads a statement by the Turkish Foreign Office, BBC reports. The Turkish government considers that the decision to set up the monument was canceled due to “hostile” Armenian circles.

On April 16, 1988, the Buenos Aires legislative authority adopted a memorandum, expressing its solidarity with the Armenian community of Argentina, which was commemorating the 81st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On April 22, 1998, the Argentine Senate passed a statement condemning any genocide as crime against humanity. In the statement the Senate expressed its solidarity with all the ethnic minorities – genocide victims, stressing concern over impunity granted to the perpetrators. The massacres of Armenians, Jews, Kurds, Palestinians, nations of Africa are presented as manifestation of genocide.

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