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INCLUSION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA SHOOK TURKEY
POSITIONS

26.04.2005 05:09

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A procession was held in Jerusalem marking the 90-th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. About a thousand
Armenians took part in it. Before that a liturgy was offered at St. Jacob
church in the memory of the innocent victims, the Yerkir newspaper reported.
Dressed in black the rally participants carried Armenian flags and posters
inscribed: «Armenians demand justice,» «Turkey guilty in Genocide,» «Turkey,
the past will chase you.». Participants of the procession laid wreaths and
flowers to the Monument to Victims of the Armenian Genocide. Jerusalem
Patriarch archbishop Torgom Manukian offered up a prayer. In his statement
Jerusalem Armenian community head Serob Sahakian noted that «after the 90
years of denial the Armenian Genocide issue is included in the international
agenda, which shook Turkey’s positions.»