TURKISH FLAG BURNED AT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ANNIVERSARY MARCH IN YEREVAN
Interfax
April 24 2012
Russia
A torch procession marking the 97th anniversary of the murder of
1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 was held in Yerevan
on Monday.
>From 5,000 to 6,000 people moved from the center of Yerevan to the
Tsitsernakaberd Memorial commemorating the Armenian Genocide victims.
A Turkish flag was burned at the start of the event.
Such processions have been held in Yerevan annually since 2000. Their
organizer is the Youth Union of the Dashnaktsutyun Armenian Revolution
Party.
The 1915 murder of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
has been recognized as an act of genocide by a number of states,
but Turkey has refused to recognize genocide.
Armenian political forces running in a May 6 parliamentary election
suspended their election campaigns on April 24.