Epress.am News from Armenia
More than 100 members of Lebanon’s Armenian community gathered outside Beirut’s international airport on Wednesday to protest a two-day official visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, AFP reports.
The demonstrators stood amid tight security outside the main entrance of the airport, hoisting banners that read “The Lebanese have not forgotten Turkey’s bloody history in the region” and “Erdoğan should bow before our martyrs.”
“Today’s Turkey is yesterday’s Turkey: malicious, oppressive and an ally of the enemy,” or Israel, read another banner.
An AFP correspondent said police, army and SWAT teams were on hand to control the crowd, which had amassed across the street from a rival gathering of more than 100 Lebanese students who waved banners welcoming Erdoğan.