PARIS, 21 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. A special reporter for Radio France International (RFI) has headed towards eastern Turkey to find out what happened to the Armenian churches and tombstones, how the people already referred to as “incognito Armenians” are living and what is going on the Armenian-Turkish border that has been closed for the past 20 years now. As “Armenpress” reports, RFI particularly wrote the following: “April 24, 2015 will mark the 100^th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire. Between the years of 1915 and 1923, 1.5 million Armenians were annihilated in the territory of modern-day Turkey. Those mass killings became one of the most dangerous crimes of the 20^th century. To this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge the genocide.”

The French radio’s special report has already been to Bitlis, Van and Diyarbakir and has prepared several reports providing wide coverage of the current issues facing the local Armenians, as well as the stories about and current state of Armenian cultural heritage.