Armenians must take best efforts to induce Turkey to recognize Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenians must take their best efforts to induce Turkey into recognizing the Genocide, Arpine Hayrapetyan, a 84-year-old Beirut-based Armenian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

Despite her declining years and bad health, which condemned her to a wheelchair, Ms. Hayrapetyan decided to visit Armenia on April 24 to commemorate the innocent victims of 1915 tragedy.

The family of Ms. Hayrapetyan, who lived in a town South – East of Istanbul, became victims of massacres, her grandparents perishing in the desert of Der Zor. She showed an old photo, portraying her mother’s family, a photo which helped her uncle find his sister (Ms. Hayrapetyan's mother) 52 years into the tragedy.