Picture taken 02 May 2001 during a visit by Lebane(01 of27)
Open Image ModalYEREVAN, ARMENIA: Picture taken 02 May 2001 during a visit by Lebanese President Emile Lahoud shows the memorial site of the Armenian victims of the Turkish massacres at the beginning of the century in the Armenian capital Yerevan. Lebanon is one of the few countries to have officially described the massacres of ethnic Armenians in 1915-1921, in what was then the Ottoman Empire and is now Turkey, as genocide. AFP PHOTO/Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JOSEPH BARRAK via Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Armenian Lebanese(02 of27)
Open Image ModalBEIRUT, LEBANON: TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Armenian Lebanese women look at the skeletons of Armeninan victims, who were killed during the massacres of 1915 in Turkey, at the catheral of \'St. Gregory, the Illuminator\' in Beirut, 17 April 2005. Lebanon\'s Armenian community has been cut in half in 15 years due to economic hardships. From 25,000 at the end of Lebanon\'s 1975-90 civil war, the Armenian community has dwindled to about 120,000, according to various Armenian political and religious leaders. Turkey has refused to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia since the former Soviet republic gained independence in 1991 because of Armenian efforts to secure international condemnation of the 1915-1917 massacres as genocide. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BEHROUZ MEHRI via Getty Images)
Vigil Commemorates 90th Anniversary Of Armenian Genocide(03 of27)
Open Image ModalNEW YORK - APRIL 24: Anne Zartarian holds up a picture of her father sitting in Armenia with his two siblings that were subsequently killed during a rally in Times Square marking the 90th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians in what was then the Ottoman Empire in 1915 April 24, 2005 in New York City. An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed 90 years ago in Ottoman Turkey. Amernians around the world have been lobbying to gain recognition of the massacre and to have the world recognize it as genocide. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (credit:Spencer Platt via Getty Images)
French president Jacques Chirac (C), his(04 of27)
Open Image ModalFrench president Jacques Chirac (C), his wife Bernadette (white coat) and French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy (L of Chirac) stand in front of the Memorial to the Armenian Genocide 30 September 2006 in Yerevan. French President Jacques Chirac said today that Turkey should recognize the massacre of Armenians during World War I as genocide before its possible accession to the European Union. Asked at a press conference if Turkey should recognize the 1915-1917 massacres at the hands of Ottoman Turks as genocide to enter the EU, he replied: \'honestly, I believe so.\' AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK (Photo credit should read PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:PATRICK KOVARIK via Getty Images)
People carry torches during their rally(05 of27)
Open Image ModalPeople carry torches during their rally in central Yerevan on April 23, 2008. Armenians are marking the 93rd anniversary of the killing of hundreds of thousands of their compatriots under the Ottoman Empire. Over 10,000 people marched to demand Turkey recognize the massacres as genocide, as do 23 countries, including France, Canada, Switzerland and Poland. According to the Armenians, 1.5 million of their kinsmen were killed from 1915 to 1917 under an Ottoman Empire campaign of deportation and murder. AFP PHOTO / KAREN MINASYAN (Photo credit should read KAREN MINASYAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
Armenia's President Serzh Sarksyan (R),(06 of27)
Open Image ModalArmenia\'s President Serzh Sarksyan (R), his wife Rita and the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II (L) attend in Yerevan on April 24, 2010 the ceremony marking the 95th anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Armenians demand that Turkey regognizes the genocide of 1.5 million of their kin killed between 1915 and 1917 by the Ottoman Empire, Turkey\'s predecessor. In rejecting the genocide label, Turkey says between 300,000 and 500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians took up arms in eastern Anatolia and sided with invading Russian troops. AFP PHOTO / PANARMENIAN PHOTO / DAVIT HAKOBYAN (Photo credit should read DAVIT HAKOBYAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian (C) a(07 of27)
Open Image ModalArmenian President Serzh Sarkisian (C) attends a ceremony with Catholics of all Armenians Garegin II to mark the 96th anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, in Yerevan on April 24, 2011. Armenia contends the killings were a genocide -- a label supported by some countries but vehemently opposed by Turkey -- and the controversy has poisoned ties between Yerevan and Ankara to this day. AFP PHOTO / KAREN MINASYAN (Photo credit should read KAREN MINASYAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
Jerusalem, Israel: Armenian Protest(08 of27)
Open Image ModalJERUSALEM, ISRAEL - APRIL 24: The Armenian community of the Old-City of Jerusalem make a protest demanding that the Israeli government recognize the historic mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire on April 24, 2005 in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. Armenians regard the 1915 massacres as genocide and many countries, refuse to officially recognized it as such due to political pressures. (Photo by Kitra Cahana/ Reportage by Getty Images) (credit:Kitra Cahana via Getty Images)
Jerusalem, Israel(09 of27)
Open Image ModalJERUSALEM, ISRAEL - APRIL 24: The Armenian community of the Old-City of Jerusalem make a protest demanding that the Israeli government recognize the historic mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire on April 24, 2005 in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. Armenians regard the 1915 massacres as genocide and many countries, refuse to officially recognized it as such due to political pressures. (Photo by Kitra Cahana/ Reportage by Getty Images) (credit:Kitra Cahana via Getty Images)
TURKEY-ARMENIA-GENOCIDE(10 of27)
Open Image ModalTO GO WITH AFP STORY BY NICOLAS CHEVIRON A giant map of Turkey (R), drawn on the mountain by Turkish Army soldiers, reads: \'How happy is him/her who said, I am Turkish,\' outside the eastern village of Hozat in Tunceli province on April 23, 2013. For nearly a century, Muslim Amenians from the eastern Turkish Dersim mountains kept silent to avoid persecution. But now, some are openly claiming their roots by commemorating on April 24 the Armenian genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a 1915-16 genocide by Turkey\'s former Ottoman Empire. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
TURKEY-ARMENIA-GENOCIDE(11 of27)
Open Image ModalTO GO WITH AFP STORY BY NICOLAS CHEVIRON\nA resident poses in the ruins of an Armenian church on April 23, 2013 in the eastern village of Hozat in Tunceli province. For nearly a century, Muslim Amenians from the eastern Turkish Dersim mountains kept silent to avoid persecution. But now, some are openly claiming their roots by commemorating on April 24 the Armenian genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a 1915-16 genocide by Turkey\'s former Ottoman Empire. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
FRANCE-EU-ARMENIA(12 of27)
Open Image ModalPeople of Turkish origin demonstrate on January 28, 2015 outside the European Court of Human Rights during a hearing in the eastern French city of the Strasbourg. Turkish politician Dogu Perincek from the Left-wing Turkish Workers Party appeared at the hearing before the European Court of Human Rights in the eastern French city of the Strasbourg in a challenge brought by Armenia. Perincek was found guilty by a Swiss court in 2008 of denying, during a visit to Switzerland, that the 1915 genocide, in which up to 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered, ever took place. Perincek was fined by a court in Switzerland. He appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which ruled in December 2013 that Switzerland had violated his right to free expression. AFP PHOTO / FREDERICK FLORIN (Photo credit should read FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:FREDERICK FLORIN via Getty Images)
US-ARMENIA-TURKEY-POLITICS-WAR(13 of27)
Open Image ModalAndrea Marootian who claims to have lost 10 family members to the mass killings of Armenians from 1915-1917, holds her great uncle\'s life insurance document from that era which is being donated with others to the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Genocide Research in Los Angeles, California on March 26, 2015. US lawmakers introduced a resolution last week urging President Barack Obama to recognize mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as \'genocide,\' a move sure to anger Turkey ahead of the tragedy\'s 100th anniversary. Modern Turkey has always rejected the term, putting the toll at 500,000 and blaming their deaths on war and starvation. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MARK RALSTON via Getty Images)
FRANCE-ARMENIA-GENOCIDE-MEMORIAL(14 of27)
Open Image ModalA general view taken on April 14, 2015 shows the Armenian Genocide memorial dedicated to Armenian women in the southern French city of Marseille. The 100th anniversary of the start of the tragedy -- which Armenians trace back to the arrest of the leaders of the Armenian community in Istanbul on April 24, 1915 -- has been a matter of major concern for Turkey with the government seeking to engage in offensive diplomacy. AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT (Photo credit should read BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BORIS HORVAT via Getty Images)
FRANCE-ARMENIA-GENOCIDE-MEMORIAL(15 of27)
Open Image ModalA general view taken on April 14, 2015 shows the Armenian Genocide memorial in the southern French city of Marseille. The 100th anniversary of the start of the tragedy -- which Armenians trace back to the arrest of the leaders of the Armenian community in Istanbul on April 24, 1915 -- has been a matter of major concern for Turkey with the government seeking to engage in offensive diplomacy. AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT (Photo credit should read BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BORIS HORVAT via Getty Images)
Activists protest in memory of the 1915 genocide on(16 of27)
Open Image ModalEBERTSTRASSE, BERLIN, GERMANY - 2015/04/18: Activists protest in memory of the 1915 genocide on Armenians. Participants marched along Ebertstrasse, passing Brandenburg Gate. (Photo by Madeleine Lenz/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit:Pacific Press via Getty Images)
IRAN-ARMENIA-TURKEY-GENOCIDE(17 of27)
Open Image ModalA box which contains bones of Armenians who were killed in Syria during their exodus from persecutions by the Ottoman government in 1915 are displayed at the Vank Cathedral in the Julfa neighbourhood of the historic city of Isfahan, some 400 kilometres south of the capital, Tehran, on April 20, 2015. Julfa neighbourhood is where the biggest Armenian community in Iran resides and was established as an Armenian quarter by Persian Safavid King Shah Abbas I in 1606. Some 180,000 Armenians were living in Iran before the Islamic revolution in 1979, compared to some 60,000 today, according to the figures published by the community officials. Most of the Armenian community immigrated to the United States, Canada and Western Europe. AFP PHOTO / BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BEHROUZ MEHRI via Getty Images)
Turkish people allegedly killed by Armenians(18 of27)
Open Image ModalVAN, TURKEY - (ARCHIVE) : A file photo dated April 4, 1990 shows bones and skulls belongs to 3 thousands Turkish people allegedly killed by Armenians and were found between 1915-1916 in Van, Turkey. Despite Armenian\'s genocide claim, Turkish scientists working at Erzurum-based Ataturk University and excavate mass graves since 1986, claim that Armenians killed Turkish Muslims. As a proof they show the skulls and bones of some of those who were killed. Erol Kurkcuoglu, professor at the Erzurum-based Ataturk University\'s Turkey-Armenia Relations Research Center, announced that nearly 5000 bodies of Turks was found during mass grave excavation in the eastern provinces of Erzurum, Kars, Igdir and Van. (Photo by Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
TURKEY-ARMENIA-GENOCIDE-HISTORY(19 of27)
Open Image ModalHuman rights activists hold pictures of Armenian intellectuals detained, deported and killed in 1915 in front of the historical Haydarpasa station from where the intellectuals were deported at Kadikoy in Istanbul on April 24, 2015, during a rally to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Armenians demand that Turkey regognizes the genocide of 1,5 million of their kin killed between 1915 and 1917 by the Ottoman Empire, Turkey\'s predecessor. In rejecting the genocide label, Turkey says between 300,000 and 500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians took up arms in eastern Anatolia and sided with invading Russian troops. AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGUL (Photo credit should read YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:YASIN AKGUL via Getty Images)
FRANCE-ARMENIA-HISTORY-GENOCIDE-CENTENARY(20 of27)
Open Image ModalA girls looks on from behind a placard depicting a starving shild on April 24, 2015 in Marseille, southeastern France, during a commemorative gathering marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Armenians on April 24 marked the centenary of the massacre of up to 1.5 million of their kin by Ottoman forces as France called on Turkey to recognise the 1915 slaughter as genocide. AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT (Photo credit should read BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BORIS HORVAT via Getty Images)
Marches Across The Country Mark The 100th Anniversary Of The Armenian Genocide(21 of27)
Open Image ModalNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 24: An Armenian man lights candles during a mass at the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral on the anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915 on April 24, 2015 in New York, United States. Armenia says an estimated 1.5 million people were killed by Ottoman forces in what it calls a genocide. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (credit:Spencer Platt via Getty Images)
Silent March Held In Belgium To Mark The 100Th Anniversary Of The Armenian Genocide(22 of27)
Open Image ModalBRUSSELS, BELGIUM - APRIL 24: Church ceremony held in Brussels by the Armenian Committee of Belgium to commemorate the Armenian Genocide on April 24, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.\n\nPHOTOGRAPH BY Jonathan Raa /Pacific Press / Barcroft Media (Photo credit should read Jonathan Raa / Press / BI via Getty Images) (credit:Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
ITALY-FILM-ARMENIA-HISTORY-GENOCIDE-ENTERTAINMENT(23 of27)
Open Image Modal**TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY LAURE BRUMONT An employee of film restoration laboratory Cineteca di Bologna, works on the restoration of a film about the Armenian genocide entitled \'Armenia, cradle of humanity\', at the laboratory in Bologna on June 25, 2015. The Cineteca organizes an annual a film festival \' il cinema ritrovato \' ( The found movie ) showing films which have been restored by the laboratory, this year the festival runs from June 27-July 4. Images of survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide will be shown here on Thursday as part of the 29th edition of the festival. AFP PHOTO/VINCENZO PINTO (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:VINCENZO PINTO via Getty Images)
ARMENIA-TURKEY/KILLINGS(24 of27)
Open Image ModalA man lights candles during a religious service marking the anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Empire in 1915 at an Armenian church in Tbilisi April 24, 2008. Armenia\'s President Serzh Sarksyan said on Thursday he will seek \"historic justice\" for 1.5 million ethnic Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks, claimed as a genocide by Yerevan and which still affects relations with Turkey. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA) (credit:David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters)
TURKEY-ARMENIA-GENOCIDE-HISTORY(25 of27)
Open Image ModalA human rights activist holds a placard picturing Armenian intellectual Rupen Sevag-Cilingiryan, detained and deported in 1915, during a rally on April 24, 2016 to commemorate the 101th anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at historical Haydarpasa station, in Istanbul, where Armenian intellectuals were deported. \nArmenians say up to 1.5 million people were killed during World War I as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart, a claim supported by many other countries. Turkey fiercely rejects the genocide label, arguing that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops.\n / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:OZAN KOSE via Getty Images)
TURKEY-ARMENIA/RECONCILIATION(26 of27)
Open Image ModalDemonstrators attend a torch-bearing march marking the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in Yerevan, Armenia April 24, 2015. Armenia marked the centenary on Friday of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with a simple flower-laying ceremony attended by foreign leaders as Germany became the latest country to respond to its calls for recognition that it was genocide. Turkey denies the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians in what is now Turkey in 1915, at the height of World War One, constitutes genocide and relations with Armenia are still blighted by the dispute. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (credit:David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters)
TURKEY-ARMENIA/RECONCILIATION(27 of27)
Open Image ModalDemonstrators shout slogans during a torch-bearing march marking the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. Armenia marked the centenary on Friday of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with a simple flower-laying ceremony attended by foreign leaders as Germany became the latest country to respond to its calls for recognition that it was genocide. Turkey denies the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians in what is now Turkey in 1915, at the height of World War One, constitutes genocide and relations with Armenia are still blighted by the dispute. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (credit:David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters)