Speaker of the Greek parliament, Nikitas Kaklamanis, issued a statement on the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

“April 24, 1915 - April 24, 2025.

110 years since the official start of the Armenian Genocide.

On that day, most of the Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Ottoman Constantinople were arrested, tortured and killed. Hundreds of Armenians from Constantinople were hanged along with them.

The Armenian Genocide is one of the darkest pages in human history, taking the lives of 1.5 million Armenians and becoming the beginning of the deportation and suffering of millions more.

And yet, 110 years after these terrible historical events, Turkey officially continues to stubbornly deny the historical truth.

And today, in the place where history and wounds meet the present and the hopes of the future, we all have a duty to remember, honor, and protect the memory of our brothers; today—the Armenians, tomorrow—the people of Asia Minor, Pontus and the Cypriots.

Because only in this way, with memory and prudence, can we unite and resist forgetting and the distortion of history,” the statement says.

This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Every year on April 24, hundreds of thousands of Armenians silently march to the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, and lay flowers in memory of the approximately 1.5 million victims of this tragedy.