IN TURKEY, HUNDREDS MARK ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Focus News

April 24 2012
Bulgaria

Istanbul. Hundreds demonstrated in Istanbul’s central Taksim square on
Tuesday to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide
by Ottoman Turks during World War I, AFP reported.

The large group of Turkish, Armenian and Kurdish protesters staged a
sit-in, holding pictures of prominent Armenian intellectuals including
journalist Hrant Dink, who was killed in 2007 in front of his Istanbul
office.

“We are here to say this pain belongs to all of us … We are trying
to share the pain of Armenians,” said Senol Karakas, a spokesman for
the group.

The group sat in silence, some of them crying.