This year marks the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide committed in 1915.
Although April 24 is considered a day of remembrance for the victims of the Armenian Genocide, the massacre of Armenians began in the late 19th century, when Turkish rulers, first Hamidian Turkey and then the Young Turk government, organized a genocide in 1892-1923, leading to mass deportations. The Armenian population of Western Armenia, Cilicia and the Ottoman Empire was exterminated.
More than two hundred Armenian intellectuals - writers, musicians, publicists, lawyers, doctors, deputies - were arrested in Constantinople on April 24, 1915, on the orders of the Turkish authorities. They were all exiled and brutally killed.
Demonstrations were organized in Soviet Armenia on April 24, 1965, demanding the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Every year, on April 24, the mourning procession of hundreds of thousands of Armenians moves silently to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, laying flowers in memory of the 1.5 million victims.