Clooney and Aznavour commemorate Armenian Genocide

yerevan - American Hollywood star George Clooney and the French chansonnier Charles Aznavour on Sunday commemorated the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. They laid flowers at a memorial in the Armenian capital Yerevan, accompanied by President Serzh Sargsyan.

It was Sunday, 101 years ago, hundreds of members of the Armenian elite were arrested and killed by Turkish nationalists among others. This applies as the start of a massacre that, according to historians and a half million Armenians living cost and include the United Nations and the Netherlands is referred to as genocide. Turkey insists the catastrophe, as Armenians call the bloody episode in Ottoman history, was the unfortunate result of discord between ethnic groups in the chaos of those years.