The French magazine Paris Match dedicated five pages of its issue to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Nouvelles d'Arménie writes. The issue includes series of articles entitled “Armenia: 100 years of solitude,” as well as a photo of the liturgy from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin on April 24, when the canonization of 1,5 million martyrs of the 1915 Genocide took place.

“The mass killings began in the night of April 24, 1915 with the arrests of the Armenian elite upon the order of the nationalistic government of Young Turks. 1,5 million people died: this was the fist extermination of the 20th century. This topic is no longer a taboo for leaders of different states. Twenty states, including France, recognized those actions as genocide. But not Ankara, which is the successor of the Ottoman Empire and which refuses to take the responsibility, even though in 2014 President Erdogan for the first time offered ‘condolences’ to the successors,” Paris Match writes.