Armenian Genocide to be commemorated in a canyon in Dersim

YEREVAN, MARCH 16, ARMENPRESS. It becomes more and more difficult for Turkey to continue its denialist policy advancing the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Dersim-Armenian Miran Prkich stated this in a conversation with “Armenpress”.

Among other things, Miran Prkich stated that the Union of Dersim Armenians and Alawites will commemorate the Armenian Genocide victims’ memory on April 24 this year in the Kayışoğlu Canyon. In addition, Miran Prkich underscored that the canyon has not been chosen as the site for the commemoration accidentally. The Armenians were thrown into that very canyon and murdered in 1915.

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.