Armenians Commemorate Mass Killings in Turkey

On the evening of April 23, several thousand Armenians marched through the streets of Yerevan to the Tsitsarnakaberd Genocide Monument, carrying torches, flowers, candles and flags to commemorate the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. The following day, leaders of the Armenian church, political leaders, military leaders and several thousand Yerevan residents again visited the hilltop monument for a religious service to memorialize those who were killed.