Memorial activities began Monday evening with student activists marching to the memorial on a hill in Yerevan carrying torches lit from a burning Turkish flag in Opera Square near the city center. In a conciliatory note, Armenian politicians and religious leaders were accompanied to the monument Tuesday by Turkish intellectual Ali Ertan, who heads a group of Turks who want their government to recognize the killings. Ertan lay flowers on the monument. World War I. Armenia was then part of the Ottoman Empire. On Wednesday, the Canadian Senate is scheduled to review two measures on recognizing the Armenian genocide.
Similar laws are under consideration in the United States, Austria, Germany and other countries.
Argentina, Greece, France, Cyprus, Russia and several other countries already have officially recognized the historic events as genocide, along with eleven U.S. state governments. Please email them. Armenian, Assyrian and Hellenic Genocide News .