--> BEIRUT: Lebanese protesters of Armenian descent clashed with security forces Thursday during a demonstration against the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Members of the Armenian community in Lebanon organized the protest in Downtown Beirut to condemn Erdogan’s two-day visit, which started Wednesday. Erdogan had met with Lebanon’s three top officials and held visits to north and south Lebanon to inaugurate a school and a hospital.
via dailystar.com.lb
Armenian Orthodox Archbishop in Lebanon Kegham Khatcherian warned Lebanon and the Arab world against surrendering their leadership to foreign powers, saying “we are protesting in Martyrs Square not against an official visit or against an agreement, but to prove to this visitor [Erdogan] and to the entire world that we will not keep quiet about our inherited right.”
