Armenian Officials “Banned from Vacationing in Turkey”
According to RFE/RL’s Armenia Service, the Prime Minister Andranik Markarian has forbidden state officials from taking their holidays in Turkey.
Representatives of several private travel agencies who spoke on the condition of anonymity told RFE/RL that their clients working in the government have had to cancel plans to travel to the Turkish Mediterranean resort of Antalya with their families as a result.
“Some state officials already booked air tickets and hotel rooms in Turkey and then cancelled those reservations and asked us for other travel destinations where they are free to go,” said one of them. “They said such a decision was taken by the prime minister and they have no right to go there now.”
Turkey is increasingly becoming a popular destination for Armenians despite the closed border and disagreements over whether the massacre and cultural absorption of approximately 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 onwards constituted Genocide.
Flights operate between the two countries although road communication is via Georgia. The full news item can be read online here.
that’s alright instead of going on holiday in that [deleted by administrator] muslim country they can go somewhere else like Bulgaria (which is also affordable)
Comment by dude — July 30, 2005 @ 3:34 pm