This year marks the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
Although April 24 is considered to be the day of remembrance of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, the massacres of Armenians began at the end of the 19th century, when the ruling regions of Turkey in 1892-1923, first the Hamidian Turkey and then the Young Turks government, organized a genocide, which resulted in mass deportations. The Armenian population of the provinces of Western Armenia, Cilicia and the Ottoman Empire was subjected and annihilated.
On April 24, 2015, based on the orders of the Turkish authorities, more than two hundred Armenian intellectuals were arrested in Constantinople: writers, musicians, public speakers, lawyers, doctors, deputies. They were all exiled and brutally killed.
On April 24, 1965, demonstrations were organized in Soviet Armenia, the participants of which demanded recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Every year, on April 24, a mourning procession of hundreds of thousands of Armenians moves silently to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, laying flowers in memory of around 1.5 million victims.
