Armenia doctors, Covid-19 patients commemorate GenocideApril 24, 2020 - 15:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Healthcare workers of the Infectious Antituberculosis Hospital in Gyumri, Armenia and coronavirus patients receiving treatment at the facility on Thursday, April 23 evening joined commemorations on the 105th anniversary of the Genocide. Given the coronavirus pandemic, all the public remembrance events were cancelled, and access to the Genocide memorial was shut down. Armenians were urged to join commemorations remotely, turn off lights at home and flash the lights from their phone cameras through windows. Doctors, nurses and patients of the Gyumri hospital joined the minute of commemoration too.
April 24, 1915 is the day when a group of Armenian intellectuals were rounded up and assassinated in Constantinople by the Ottoman government. On April 24, Armenians worldwide are commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Genocide, which continued until 1923. Some three dozen countries, hundreds of local government bodies and international organizations have so far recognized the killings of 1.5 million Armenians as Genocide. Turkey denies to this day. Top stories As a result of floods in Armenia’s northern Lori and Tavush provinces, 17 bridges, including five large ones, have collapsed. David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with Stephan Schütz, Executive Partner at Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. Partner news | Viva sees growing demand for cloud services In recent years, medical institutions are starting to make use of Viva’s cloud services Turkey replacing term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks The Turkish Ministry of Education is replacing the term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks. Armenian, German presidents meet in Berlin Armenian and German Presidents Vahagn Khachaturyan and Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Berlin. Balance of attached cards in the Idram&IDBank app From now on, users will be able to view the online balances of cards issued by ArCa system banks and attached to the app. |