“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.”
“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.
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.
Facing the genocide, the past and reality will only contribute to ensuring public peace in our country. Let’s not forget that any crime which remains unpunished will become the reason for its repetition. And continues to become….
“I am honored to be here today. I know how important this day is for Armenia and the Armenians worldwide. Today on behalf of the US government and people I am here to pay tribute to the memory of 1.5 million Armenians who were killed in 1915,” Rafik Mansour told reporters.
Famous Russian TV and radio journalist Vladimir Solovyov referred to the Armenian Genocide. He posted a Forgetme-not photo in Twitter recalling that the April 24 is the Remembrance Day of the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian community of Montebello, California organized a commemorative event for the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Armenians gathered near the Montebello Memorial of the Armenian Genocide, where they called on the US government to recognize the Genocide.
The donation by a film company founded by the late Kerkor “Kirk” Kerkorian, an Armenian American philanthropist and businessman, will help establish the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law.
