Ukraine opens honorary consulate in Antalya – Klimkin

12:33, 05.11.2018 1 min read

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that the honorable opening of the Ukrainian consulate in Antalya (Turkey) took place on Sunday.

"Today we've opened the Ukrainian consulate in Antalya, as well as the Ukrainian House, the cultural center of the Ukrainian community," Klimkin wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday.

He noted that the call for the release of a political prisoner in the Russian Federation, Oleh Sentsov, was placed on the front of the building in Turkish.

"One of the Turkish citizens in the crowd: "He defended Crimea, we must now protect him!" Klimkin wrote.