The year 2009 marks the 90th anniversary of April 24 as a day of commemoration of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. Here is the history of this sad commemoration event. The United State of America has not yet called the events of 1915 as a genocide. However, the president Barack Obama has promised in his campaign to call the events as Genocide and recognize the Armenian Genocide.

In a groundbreaking move, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has voted overwhelmingly to recognize as genocides the massacres of Assyrian and Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923.

The Massachusetts Council of Churches unequivocally recognizes the Armenian Genocide, launched on April 24, 1915 and continued through 1923, which resulted in the annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and the deportation of almost the entire Armenian population from its ancestral lands in Asia Minor. The Armenian Genocide marked the first modern instance of genocide conducted as a policy of state...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urging her to support H. Res. 106, the Armenian Genocide Resolution.

On Thursday, April 12, 2007, over one hundred Illinois residents had an opportunity to hear Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speak out on the importance of recognizing the Armenian Genocide, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).