“Today’s decision of the Munkachevo (Munkács) City Council committee to remove the city’s iconic Turul statue on the Munkács castle which was restored to its original form in 2008 is deeply shocking and outrageous,” said Árpád János Potápi, state secretary in charge of policies for Hungarian communities abroad, in a statement to Magyar Nemzet. He added that,
“It is even more shocking that the statue was removed in record-time, by that very afternoon.”