The neighbourhood is also the birthplace of journalist Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, who was shot dead outside his newspaper's offices in Istanbul in 2007.
"I beg to differ from RPA representatives, who maintain that Armenian Genocide recognition issue in US is an internal matter," Artyusha Shakhbazyan said.
Serzh Sargsyan: Up to this moment, in the 21st century, the stigma of that disgrace still remains on the foreheads of all those who have turned the denial of the evident facts into their policy, lifestyle and norm of behavior