The Turkish flag and a banner with Turkey’s leaders were burned yesterday in a torch torch-light procession to commemorate the mass killings or Armenian’s 95 years ago by Ottoman Turks during World War I.
Armenian Nationalist youth burn the Turkish Flag during Rally on Friday
The event which, over 10,000 Armenian’s took part in was organised by the Dashnak-Tsutyun party’s youth wing which is a party known for their nationalist politics.
The rally started from the world famous Matenadaran which was the location of a small meeting held before the main rally.
The start of the rally was subject to scenes which involved burning down the Turkish flag and a banner which had images of Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
The youth continued with the rally chanting patriotic words and songs. They were also carrying placards with slogans such as “The recognition time is now!” and “We demand compensation from Turkey!”.
Armenian Youths Burnings Banner with Turkey Prime minister, President and foreign affairs minister.
According to historians, an estimated 1.5 million Armenian’s were killed by the Ottoman Turks during World War I.
Turkeys have sternly denied the genocide talks of the Armenian mass killings as they say the amount of killings were much less then the 1.5 million that historians believe to be and that at the time of the killings there was civil war and unrest in the country.
Armenia will officially mark the 95th anniversary of the killings on Saturday.
