The LAMAR billboard company has put up an anti-Armenian billboard on I-95 in Philadelphia, funded by MUSAID USA (a Turkish American Business Association) which reads:

“Azerbaijanis (and Turks) are ready to live in harmony with Armenians. How about Armenians?”

The billboard fails to reference Erdogan/Aliyev’s brutal attacks on Artsakh and Armenia, the torture and murder of Armenian captives illegally held by Azerbaijan, the forced displacement of over 40,000 Artsakh families, or the century of Azerbaijan/Turkey’s repression of Armenian communities.

Take these three steps today to ask the LAMAR billboard CEO to take down the offensive billboard:

LAMAR’s Philadelphia Office: (610) 779-9421

Leave a message demanding that the company take down this anti-Armenian billboard that is offensive to so many Armenian Americans in Philadelphia and the broader community – many of whom fled Azerbaijani aggression and are descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors.

@LamarOOH please don’t blindly put up advertisements that are misleading, inflammatory and offensive to the #Armenian people. We ask that you remove anti-Armenian billboard on I-95 in Philadelphia immediately.

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I am writing to express my disappointment regarding a billboard installed on the northbound side of I-95 in Philadelphia (#064056) and requesting it be brought down immediately. It states:

“Azerbaijanis (and Turks) are ready to live in harmony with Armenians. How about Armenians?”

This billboard is offensive to all Armenians because it is spreading harmful misinformation to the public. The language offered by MUSIAD, the organization who purchased the ad, appears peaceful to a person not familiar with the geopolitics, but is in fact a veiled threat to the Armenian community and is intended to incite further conflict and violence.

Towards the end of 2020, Azerbaijan launched an unprovoked war against the ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) resulting in the death of nearly 4,000 Armenian soldiers and civilians. Taking advantage of a distracted world due to the pandemic and a hotly contested election in the United States, they attacked civilians and infrastructure using illegal weapons such as cluster munitions and white phosphorus.

After Azerbaijan violated multiple ceasefires during the height of the conflict, one has been in effect since November 2020. It has resulted in half of the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh to be displaced. The Azeris, supported by the Turkish government, are not interested in peace in that region. They have yet to transfer more than 100 civilian captives and prisoners of war back to Armenia. Meanwhile, Armenia ensured the immediate release of Azeri captives.

The Turkish government, who is also referenced on this billboard, also does not want peace. In 1915, the Turks systematically annihilated 1.5 million Armenians in the name of Islam. It was Genocide and the Turks killed nearly 75% of the Armenian population at the time. Adolf Hitler credited the Turks when he laid out his plans for the Holocaust, stating “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

Again, this billboard is not a message of peace. Please take it down immediately.

I look forward to your response and your swift action in removing this billboard. I would also urge you to be more prudent in your decisions on the type of advertising that you allow to be displayed on your billboards moving forward.

Sincerely,