Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on Parliament Hill
Hundreds gathered on the east side of Parliament Hill to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Sunday, even as hundreds more gathered on the west side to protest the term genocide.
Estimated 1.5 million Armenians killed beginning April 24, 1915 but Turkey says number is smaller
Hundreds gathered on the east side of Parliament Hill to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Sunday, even as hundreds more gathered on the west side to protest the term genocide.
Ottoman authorities — in what is now Turkey — rounded up and killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians beginning on April 24, 1915.
Though Canada and other countries recognize the slaughter of Armenians around the time of the First World War as a genocide, Turkey rejects the term and disputes the number of people killed.
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