Monday 25 April 2011

Turks Increasingly Commemorate Armenian Massacre

Tourists flocking to see carpets and calligraphy at one of Istanbul's most renowned museums were met Sunday by a rare public display of opinion on perhaps the darkest episode of Turkey's history, the massacres of Armenians.

Several dozen demonstrators held red roses and photographs of the dead outside the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, an Ottoman-era building where historians say Armenian intellectuals were briefly detained at the outset of t

Source:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/24/ap/world/main20056892.shtml

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