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!”.
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.
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The figure of 1,5 millions of Armenian victims is no more used by serious historians, and even by some pro-Armenian author. The scholar consensus is around 600/650,000, including those who perished because displacement by Russian army, and because military clashes.
The label of “genocide” is rejected by respectable historians, including Bernard Lewis, Guenter Lewy, Justin McCarthy and Gilles Veinstein.