As a result of effective efforts by the Armenian National Committee of Greece, bus advertisements depicting occupied Shushi as part of Azerbaijan were removed, dealing a blow to Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian campaign.
The bus that is wrapped in the Azerbaijani advertisement was photographed on the streets Thessaloniki and posted on social media site. Several reporters protested the advertisements and urged for them to be removed, reported the Athens-based Azat Or newspaper.
Members of ANC Greece immediately contacted the director public transit services in Thessaloniki, who pledged the immediate removal all such advertisements and take out of circulation the busses that already bear the insulting wrapping. The transit director said that an outside agency has been hired to secure advertisements for the transit agency, adding that transit authorities were unaware of the subject of the ads. Similar pro-Azerbaijani ads were also place in London and Sydney and thought he efforts of the ANC chapters there, those ads were also removed.
The Greek City Times dubbed the incident “The Bus of Shame,” and reported that Thessaloniki authorities removed them “without hesitation.”
“Although the advertisement has been removed, it does bring into question why it was ever allowed to be displayed,” the newspaper added.
Armenia’s Ambassador to Greece Tigran Mkrtchyan said that such actions by Azerbaijan can be expected not only in Greece, where there is a small Azerbaijani community, but also in other countries.
“With such provocative efforts Azerbaijan is simply trying to present and perpetuate the results of the use of force as a reality, while we know for sure that the issue of the status of Nagorno Karabakh remains open,” said Ambassador Mkrtchyan.
“I consider this act a provocation, especially in a friendly country like Greece, whose authorities have more than once expressed solidarity with the positions of Armenia. With such a provocative step they are trying to put some tension in the Armenian-Greek relations, which, of course, will be a failure,” added the ambassador.
Looking at this picture I suddenly imagined a grenade launcher taking out that truck and blow it into pieces just like hundreds of their military tanks were taken out and turned into burning metal early in the war. What a magnificent sight that would be to watch indeed!
Cancel culture to a new level. Remove all the adverts you like but it just marks you as unfriendly to Azerbaijan and I am sure that will be noted and effect future trade relations. Remember that Azerbaijan has a vibrant growing economy while Armenia is circling the drain as a nation with the population flooding out the door like rate leaving a sinking ship. It does not change the facts on the ground and the reality that Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan legally and will be so in practice totally as soon as the Russians leave.
Get it through your thick skulls once and for all that “karabakh” is not part of artificial Azerbaijan because it never was and just because artificial Azerbaijani illegitimate and terrorist leaders say so does not make it so. That donkey brain idiot Ilham Aliyev once told a BBC reporter that the name “karabakh” is Turkish (black garden) and that is a proof that the land is Turkish. Using his own twisted logic, Nakhijevan or Nakh-ije-van where Nakh=original, ije from the verb ijel=to land/rest and van=region in Armenian meaning Nakh-ije-van=The original resting place of Noah, so then the question is why does an Armenian territory with original Armenian name find itself under the jurisdiction of artificial Azerbaijan and not Armenia? Simply because just like “karabakh” it illegally transferred from Armenia to artificial Azerbaijan republic which itself was invented on occupied historic Armenian lands as a Turkish outpost in the South Caucasus post Ottoman collapse and defeat at the end of WWI in 1918. Invented for the homeless Caucasian Muslim Tatars (Turkified Mongols) and renamed to Azerbaijan only in 1936 despite protest from the Iranian government for stealing the name from ancient Persian territory of Atropatan (modern Iranian Azerbaijan) located to the south of the Araxis River within the boundaries of the Islamic republic of Iran. Deliberately given the name of a Persian territory so as to make future territorial demands from Iran by claiming artificial Azerbaijan republic as “northern Azerbaijan” and territories with the same name inside Iran as “Southern Azerbaijan”. This was part of a pan-Turkic scheme cooked up by terrorist Turks and their pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani criminal collaborators. There has never been an Azerbaijani state to the north of Araxis River in the South Caucasus let alone to claim these ancient Armenian territories as theirs. It is laughable and the only reason they get away with their nonsense is because they have oil and gas the west can exploit and western oil companies are heavily invested in that. Quit with your bull crap you are not fooling anyone.
Furthermore, given the deep animosity between the indigenous Armenians and terrorist Turks, including pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijanis transplanted here from Central Asia, how is it possible that an Azerbaijani hostile enemy would allow a part of its fictitious territory, 4400 square kilometers, be populated by 95% Armenian enemy population? It makes no sense whatsoever. It defies logic. The only way this can happen is if the boundaries of this fictitious Azerbaijani state was artificially extended to include this piece of ancient Armenian territory. There can be no other explanation for it. Besides, all this took place during now-defunct Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union came to an end in 1991 and artificial Azerbaijan-SSR declared its independence from the Soviet Union so did this autonomous Armenian region declare its independence from artificial Azerbaijan-SSR. In other words, “karabakh” has NEVER been part of the so-called independent Azerbaijan republic!
I guess “Tony Martin” has no comeback when you present facts. He seems like a paid internet troll just spewing the garbage that is in his trolling manual.
Laughable.. Azerbokjan, an oil field masquerading as a country. No history, no culture, nada!
An oil field led by turkey’s dog aliyev.
They are all a bunch of filthy lying cowards and experts in hit and run. A bunch of mentally-handicapped zombies who only know how to regurgitate and spew nonsense drilled into their empty heads since childhood by their racist authoritarian leaders and fake historians. This detestable and slimy behavior is part of their DNA.. When it comes to the Armenians these despicable subhumans have no respect for the truth and they are frightened and intimidated by those of us who know how to expose their lies with facts!
@ARARAT!!!!
ME 100% PRO ARMEEENIAN BUT I AGREE WITH TONY MARTIN!!!!! ARMEEENIA IS A MESS!!!! LEEDERS ARE CORRUPT AND GREEDY!!!!! 30 YEARS AND COUNTRY IS WORSE THAN EVER!!!! NO NATURAL RESORCES EXCEPT ROCKS AND CHURCHES!!!!!!! UNLESS UNITY IN NATION AND WORK TO BE SUCCESS RICH AND POWER, ARMEEENIAN PEEOPLE WILL KEEP MOVING TO GLENDELL!!!!!!! NO BLAME THEM!!!! I BET YOU DO NOT LIVE IN ARMEENIA!!!!! EASY FOR YOU TO MAKE TOUGH TALK WHEN ARMEEENIA IS WEAK POOR CORRUPT BAD ECONOMY AND LOW POPULATION!!!!!!! I WISH IT IS NOT LIKE THAT BUT REALITY!!!!!!!!! ARMEEENIA HAS BEEN RUN TO GROUND!!!!
HAGOP,
You are too hasty in your responses and I suggest you read between the lines. As they say in advertising, the devil is in the details. He claims artificial Azerbaijan has vibrant economy. What economy? Over 95% of their state budget comes from that “black gold” in the ground that is being exploited by westerners and used by Azerbaijani criminal leaders as blackmail to move forward and force their expansionist agenda on the rest of the world and on the Armenians in particular. They have no industry other than that. They have no intellectual investments. But guess what? When the timing is right and you are in position of strength, take out their oil and gas pipelines and their “vibrant” economy will come crashing to a screeching halt giving rise to civil war.
He implies Armenia is poor and the population is transient. Who is blockading Armenia and for the last 30 years? We will give the terrorist Azerbaijani enemy a pass on that because of the conflict but who else is blockading Armenia that is one of the major causes of this situation? Not Iran and not Georgia but terrorist Turkey and with no provocations from Armenia towards Turkey whatsoever. Add to that the internal corruption that has to be eradicated. Given the current conditions, the population has to survive somehow but unlike the traditional Armenian Diasporas across the globe, created as a direct result of the 1915 Armenian Genocide whose communities have permanently established themselves in their host countries over the last century, this population is split up between the homeland and overseas and many of them flock back and forth when duty calls. I have heard and read about many instances of that.
Last but not least, this disguised Turkish troll claims ARTSAKH “karabakh” is legally part of artificial Azerbaijan. What else would you expect? I would be shocked if he did not. He has no clue what he is talking about but it is part of his filthy Turkish DNA to spew such nonsense. He is either ignorant of history or a deliberate LIAR, because:
1. How can such an ancient Armenian territory dating back centuries , one of the many principalities of ancient Armenia, be “legally” part of an artificial state invented only 103 years ago on occupied Armenian and Persian lands and for the homeless Caucasian Muslim Tatars (Turkified Mongols) and later renamed to Azerbaijan and this name stolen from the ancient Persian territory of Atropatane even today located inside Iran to the south of the Araxis River and never in the South Caucasus north of this River?
2. When he says “legally” he means the Turkish version of this word which is equal to theft. This territory has never been part of today’s o-called independent Azerbaijan. The illegal transfer of this territory from Armenia to newly-invented Azerbaijan-SSR took place under Soviet Union. The USSR does not exist anymore and when it came to an end in 1991, the artificial Azerbaijan-SSR declared its independence from the Soviet Union as did the occupied Armenian territory of ARTSAKH from the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan-SSR.
3. An important subject that is not talked about much is the fact that the confiscation and transfer of many of Armenian territories from Armenia to the Turkish and pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani enemy territories took place by the criminal collaboration of newly established Soviet Union and a rebel Turkish “government” post (after) Ottoman empire, neither of which was internationally recognized at the time and when false treaties were signed, such the Moscow Treaty, and therefore they have no legal value. Both the Soviet Union and the terrorist republic of Turkey were internationally recognized a year or two, in 1922 and 1923 respectively, after all these illegal activities had taken place! End of story!