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Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Mets Yegherrni zoheri hishataki or) or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day [5] is a public holiday in Armenia and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. [5] [6] It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
The Melkonian Institution was created as an orphanage in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide (the word 'Genocide' was defined in 1944) of 1915–1923. Zaven Patriarch of Constantinople was the first director of this institution, who in April 1926 undertook the heavy task of traveling and collecting over 300 orphans, boys and girls, from amongst thousands of children left destitute on the ...
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
Yet another April 24 is upon us. As Fresno Bee readers and Fresno community members know, during this time Armenians and non-Armenians in Fresno and worldwide commemorate one of the massive human ...
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The Workshop for Armenian/Turkish Scholarship (WATS) is a group of scholars which is dedicated to transcending the nationalist historiography on the Armenian genocide and answering related questions. It first met in 2000.
On April 24, 2021, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, President Joe Biden declared that the United States considers the events "genocide" in a statement released by the White House, [3] [4] [5] in which the president formally equated the genocide perpetrated against Armenians with atrocities on the scale of those committed in Nazi-occupied ...