PanArmenian News
May 14, 2002
ARMENIA TO COMMEMORATE GREEK GENOCIDE MEMORIAL DAY
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ May 19 the memorial day of the victims of the
genocide of Greeks in Ottoman Turkey will be marked in Armenia. Since
1916 the government of "Young Turks" and then Cemal followers carried
out purposeful policy on extirpation of Greeks. As a result, over
three hundred thousand Greeks were killed and about 1.5 million escaped.
May 19 the procession to the Armenian genocide victims' memorial as
well as other actions will be held. The officials of Greek embassy in
Armenia, representatives of social and political organizations will
participate in the ceremony. It should be reminded the Greek
communities of Armenian and Nagorno Karabakh as well as a number of
parties raise the issue regarding the need to recognize the fact of
the Greek genocide in Ottoman Turkey on official level. As it is
known, the Greek parliament recognized the fact of the 1915 Armenian
genocide in 1996.
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