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April 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Thousands took part in an annual procession to a hilltop memorial in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Tuesday, AFP reported.
People carried candles and flowers to commemorate “the genocide” by the Ottoman Empire.
“Today we, just as many, many others all over the world, bow to the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian genocide,” President Serzh Sarkisian said in a statement.
Armenia says up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed in an act of genocide carried out by the forces of the empire in 1915 and 1916.
Turkey rejects the use of the word “genocide,” while saying instead that only 500,000 Armenians had died and those were casualties of World War I.
A diplomatic row recently erupted between Turkey and France over the matter after French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to introduce a law that made it illegal to deny that the Ottoman Empire had carried out “the genocide.”
In 2001, Paris formally recognized that the empire had carried out “the genocide,” but stopped short of imposing penalty on those, who denied it.
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