Chairman of Turkish-Azerbaijani Union in the Netherlands Ilham Askin has been convicted for anti-Armenian  speech, the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy said.

Askin has been sentenced by the court of the Netherlands for hate speech, inciting violence for his “Karabakh will be Armenians’ grave” chants during a Turkish rally in Almelo.

On  June 1, 2014, a Turkish demonstration took place in Almelo, and against the Armenian Genocide memorial that was erected on the yard of the Armenian Apostolic Church in this city. The Armenian community, namely the Federation of Armenian Organisations in the Netherlands (FAON) and the Dutch Armenian Committee for Justice and Democracy (Hay Tad), had filed a police report against the statements made during this demonstration.