Turkey calls for prosecution of Armenian attacks on Turkish promotion events

Turkey has urged prosecution of and measures against attacks by certain Armenian groups on events promoting Turkey abroad.

"Attacks on events promoting Turkey abroad by some Armenian groups has recently increased. We are expecting related countries to prosecute those attacks and take measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents," Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Selcuk Unal said in a response to a question on Tuesday.

Unal said the latest instants of such attacks came during a Beirut fair of Turkish ready-wear manufacturers and at the International Books Fair in Paris.

"This hostile attitude and the radical nationalist mind set it is founded on have shown its face in the form of terrorist attacks in the past," Unal said.


/World Bulletin/