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The US police detained an Azerbaijani who started a fight with the Armenians during the commemoration ceremony of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The incident happened in Washington near the Turkish Embassy where a group of Armenians stopped the car in which the Azerbaijani citizen sat with a Turkish flag. Arriving at the scene, the representatives of law enforcement agencies detained the Azerbaijani, Azerbaijani news outlet 1news.az reports.

The website of the TV channel KTLA 5 adds that a protest under the slogan “For Justice” dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Centennial was held in front of the Turkish Consulate in New York on April 24. A group of Turkish demonstrators were asked to leave the territory of the protest. During the protest, a Turkish activist lashed out at an Armenian demonstrator and injured him. After that the police arrested him. 

The police of Los Angeles sent away the 13-30 Turkish protesters who had gathered on the way of the flow of the 130,000 participants of the Armenian protest moving towards the Turkish Consulate. The participants of the 6-kilometer-long march urged to recognize the Genocide.

The main commemorative events dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, the first Genocide of the 20th century, were held yesterday. More than 60 high-profile foreign delegations arrived in Armenia to pay tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the tragedy.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 has been recognized by a number of states. The first country to do this was Uruguay in 1965, followed by the Republic of Cyprus (1975), Argentina (2004), Russia (1995), Canada (1996), Greece (1999), Lebanon (1997), Belgium (1998), Italy (2000), Vatican (2000), France (1998), Switzerland (2003), Slovakia (2004), The Netherlands (2004), Poland (2005), Venezuela (2005), Lithuania (2005), Chile (2007), Sweden (2010), Bolivia (2014), Austria (2015). The Armenian Genocide has also been recognized the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches. 43 of 50 U.S. states have recognized and condemned the Armenian Genocide stating April 24 as the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Parliaments of several European countries have adopted laws criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, however, denies the mass killings of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (on the eve of World War I around 2 million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire, about 1.5 million Armenians were eliminated during 1915-1923, the remaining half million spread all over the world).

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