“If we don’t move the history on the way of truth, we can repeat it. If we deny the history, it can be repeated itself,” she said, stating that by remembering the truth, it is necessary to concentrate on the present, one of the vivid examples of which is the strong ties between the capitals of France and Armenia.

Professor Garabed Antranikian is a world-famous and highly regarded microbiologist. He is a recipient of the most coveted European environmental award, the Environment Prize of the German Environment Foundation. Antranikian has achieved unprecedented success in developing environmentally friendly products, particularly in the production of new materials and fuels obtained from renewable resources.

I’ll never forget the “tears” the rain made on the tips of the 12 slabs, each representing the 12 Armenian provinces that perished during the Genocide. 102 years later and still we are fighting for recognition and justice.

“I am the product of that silence prevalent in Turkey,” he said. “I am part of this denial. (As a citizen of Turkey) I have that privilege to be in Turkey unlike Armenians or Greeks who were killed or deported from Turkey. That’s why I think I have to apologize.”

“Being Armenian means triumph to me. Every one of us who succeeds is a triumph in the face of Genocide – they failed to annihilate us, failed to silence us, and we will continue to thrive worldwide. It makes me very proud,” Alexis says.

“What we do, we think, has quite a great impact. The world changes and one can help and support his country without entering into politics or the government,” he added.

“You know, in reality it is important that everyone recognizes. It is important that the US speaks about the Armenian Genocide not only on the level of states, but rather on high state level, but our final goal is that first of all Turkey recognizes the Armenian Genocide.”

One hundred years after Steve Jobs’s adoptive family escaped the Armenian Genocide, the company he created is releasing its biggest new product on the centennial of a mass killing that left 1.5 million dead at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

Manuschak Karnusian was born in 1960 to a Swiss mother and an Armenian father. She grew up in Gstaad, Switzerland, and pursued a career as a bookseller and a flight attendant with Swissair before becoming a trainee journalist with the Berner Zeitung newspaper. She worked as a journalist and editor for the Förderband radio station and the newspaper Tessiner Zeitung.

Armenia’s Ambassador to Russia H.E. Vardan Toghanyan and Primate of Russia’s and New Nakhijevan’s Armenian Diocese Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan laid flowers on April 24 to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims in the Armenian monastery complex in Moscow, Russia.