STEPANAKERT. – The court verdict against Ilham Askin, Chairman of the Turkish Azerbaijani Cultural Association in The Hague, is a triumph of the law over unlawfulness. 

Davit Babayan, Head of the Central Information Department of the Office of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic/NKR) President and Deputy Dead of the NKR President’s Office, told about the abovementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“There have been, there are, and there will be Armenian graves in Nagorno-Karabakh,” stressed Babayan. “Armenians have lived on this land for ages, they have fallen defending this land, and they have been buried in this land. For Armenians, graves are sacred, at both family and state level.”

The Dutch court sentenced Askin to 120 hours of community service and a one-month suspended sentence, with two years probation, for his anti-Armenian statements.

He was prosecuted for having chanted, “Karabakh will be the grave of the Armenians,” during a Turkish rally in Almelo, the Netherlands.