A Turkish deputy consul general visited Pasadena City Hall this month to convey concern about a planned Armenian Genocide Memorial in a city park, the Europe News website reports today (August 29, 2012).
The Pasadena Armenian American Coalition announced last April that the California community is raising funds and working with an architect to erect a monument in Memorial Park in time for the 100th anniversary of the genocide in 2015.
Some 1.5 million Armenians were systematically killed from 1915 through 1923 by Turks in what was then the Ottoman Empire. California is among 43 states that formally recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
A prepared statement by the Consulate General of Turkey in Los Angeles said the proposed monument "deeply offends" the Turkish people and the Turkish American community in Pasadena and the greater Los Angeles area.
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