On April 24, hundreds of Armenians demonstrated outside the Turkish Embassy in Tehran (Iran) on the occasion of 99th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
According to the website Armenian-Iranian Hyeli.com attended the event the Armenian Member of Parliament Iranian Karen Khanlarian and a large number of associations and religious leaders. K. Khanlarian has noted in his speech that the statements of Erdogan expressing condolences to the Armenians was a “positive step” Turkey in the way of recognition of the Armenian genocide. A manifesto calling on Ankara’s recognition of the genocide was to the Turkish Embassy.
Krikor Amirzayan