The Geneva Canton Court has said the final word on the discussions on the monument the public wanted to erect in Geneva for years to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide, but were prevented by Turkey’s diplomatic pressure. The court ruled that the appeals to prevent the building of the monument are baseless and that the monument can be erected inside the Trembley Park in Geneva.

The monument project prepared by Parisian Armenian Melik Ohanyan to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide is planned to be opened by the 103rd anniversary of the genocide.

The Geneva City Council had approved of the monument in 2008, and the project for the monument was completed in 2011. Construction had to be delayed until today due to diplomatic pressure from Turkey. The monument caused a great crisis between Turkey and Switzerland, and was planned to be erected in a park near the UN Geneva Headquarters until that was also shut down by Turkey’s pressure. The Turkish diaspora had taken the matter to court several times under various pretenses and had been posing the greatest challenge to the erection of the monument to date.