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City Officials Deflect Questions About Turkish Memorial in Albania's Capital

Armand Mero

   TIRANA, ALBANIA - This story originated in [1]VOA's Albanian Service.

   Nearly a month after a memorial to victims of the failed military coup
   in Turkey appeared at the edge of a lake in a public park in the
   Albanian capital of Tirana, questions remain over who granted Turkish
   officials the right to put it there.

   The engraved dark-granite monument, which lists the names of 251 people
   killed in Turkey on July 15, 2016 -- mostly unarmed civilians who
   resisted the takeover -- was unveiled last month by the Turkish Embassy
   in Tirana to mark the third anniversary of the event.

   Tirana Deputy Mayor Arbjan Mazniku attended the ceremony that started
   with a march from downtown to the Grand Park of Tirana where the
   memorial was unveiled.

   The ceremony also revealed that a small area within Grand Park where
   251 trees were planted would be named "15th of July Democracy Park,"
   and that a nearby street would be renamed "15th of July Street of
   Martyrs."

References

   1. http://www.zeriamerikes.com/

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