Canada honors Turkish diplomat with monument

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu stood alongside his Canadian counterpart on Sept. 20 to dedicate a memorial to a Turkish military attaché, three decades after he was gunned down by Armenian militants in Ottawa. The memorial to Col. Atilla Altıkat is “a monument condemning terrorism,” he said, adding that stood in memory to terror victims, the Hurriyet Daily news reports.

Erdoğan had been due to travel to New York between Sept. 22 and 25 and to give a speech at the U.N. Assembly, where he was expected to push the U.N. to recognize Islamophobia as a crime against humanity.

The prime minister took the decision to cancel his trip to New York after a meeting with his party deputes and secretary general on Sept. 20.

President Abdullah Gül had earlier been scheduled to attend the U.N. Assembly but canceled due to a chronic ear infection.