Hundreds of Iranian Armenians gathered in Tehran to commemorate the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire 97 years ago.
In a ceremony held on the anniversary of the Genocide, April 24 morning, the Armenian Archbishop of Tehran Sebouh Sarkissian said that despite nearly a century elapsed after the dreadful event, Armenians across the globe will never forget it.
The Armenian officials will strongly defend the rights of the martyrs of the slaughter, IRNA quotes him as saying.
Armenia’s ambassador to Tehran, Armenians’ representative in the Iranian parliament, Armenian dignitaries and ordinary people taking part in the ceremony, too, paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the genocide by the Ottoman Empire by laying wreaths at a site erected in their memories.
They also called for an official apology by the Turkish government.
