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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Tribute paid to Armenian Genocide victims in Istanbul

Tribute paid to Armenian Genocide victims in Istanbul

YEREVAN, APRIL 25, ARMENPRESS. Thousands of people commemorated the Armenian Genocide victims’ memory in Taksim in Istanbul. The commemoration ceremony was held in front of the French Consulate, as the Turkish authorities had forbidden holding any rally or march in the square’s territory. As reports “Armenpress”, Turkish turnusol.biz website stated about this.

A number of participants lighted candles in memory of the Armenian Genocide victims. They opened a poster with the inscription in the Armenian, Turkish, and English languages saying “We Commemorate the Genocide Victims”. The ceremony was attended by Hrant Dink’s widow Rakel Dink and parents of Sevag Balıkçı.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.








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