Sunday, April 24, 2011

Turks Honor Armenian Massacre Victims

"Turks Honor Armenian Massacre Victims

24.04.2011
Karine Simonian

Hundreds of Turks rallied in downtown Istanbul on Sunday to remember more than one million Armenians massacred in the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago.

Kneeling on the ground in the city’s central Taksim Square, they silently lit candles and held red carnations to the accompaniment of Armenian melancholy music played through loudspeakers. They then laid the flowers on a big banner that said “This pain is our pain.”"

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