Grief and discontent as Armenia marks WWI mass murders anniversary

Grief and discontent as Armenia marks WWI mass murders anniversary

A sea of flowers blanketed the cold concrete of the brutalist memorial to the Armenian genocide on the Tsitsernakaberd hill, overlooking the capital Yerevan. Tens of thousands went there on Thursday to mourn the victims of World War I-era mass…

On 24 April, the International Day of Solidarity in Commemoration of the Genocide of the Armenian People was celebrated, an attempt to ethnic extermination against this culture committed by Turkish nationalists, when both were contained in the Ottoman Empire.The tensions between the two peoples had been administered centuries within this monumental sultanate, where the Turkish Muslim Sunni elite imposed on religious minorities - the vast majorit…

110 years ago, the Armenian Genocide

In April 1915, the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic extermination of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923, when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey.  The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918, while hundreds of thousands had become homeless a…

24 April 2025 marks the anniversary of one of the most tragic and often forgotten pages of the twentieth century. The war of 2020 rekindled the pain

On April 24, 1915, the assassination of several hundred Armenian intellectuals in the Ottoman Empire marked the beginning of the Armenian genocide after centuries of persecution. Even today, this bloody page of history still suffers from a lack of recognition.

Grief And Discontent As Armenia Marks WWI Mass Murders Anniversary

A sea of flowers blanketed the cold concrete of the brutalist memorial to the Armenian genocide on the Tsitsernakaberd hill, overlooking the capital Yerevan.