Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia)
April 26, 2005 Tuesday

Nation recalls killing

YEREVAN — Armenians across Europe commemorated the 90th anniversary
of the mass killings of their forebears by Ottoman Turks yesterday.

The day marks the start of what Armenia contends was a genocidal
campaign that killed up to 1.5 million of their kinsmen in 1915-17.

Ankara counters that 300,000 Armenians and thousands of Turks were
killed in “civil strife” during WWI when Armenians rose against their
Ottoman rulers, siding with invading Russians.

In Yerevan, tens of thousands of Armenians, including President
Robert Kocharian, filed silently through the city’s towering Genocide
Memorial to lay flowers at an eternal flame.

Armenia is trying to make Turkey acknowledge the massacres as
genocide.

Mr Kocharian said his government would not ask for financial
compensation if Turkey recognised the genocide.