2015 marks 100 years since one of the darkest episodes of 20th Century history, and yet it’s one which we perhaps no less about than a lot of the events of the last century. In 1915 the Ottoman Empire began a systematic extermination of its minority Armenian population with over a million people losing their lives.
The Armenian Church Community in Ireland is organising a series of events to commemorate the centenary of the Genocide, beginning this evening with a talk the Irish School of Ecumenics, Loyola Institute Building at Trinity College, Dublin, with guest speaker Ara Sarafian.
Ara Sarafian is a historian specialising in late Ottoman and modern Armenian history, and founding director of the independent academic Gomidas Institute in London.
He spoke to Wendy about the centenary commemoration.
Available until Tuesday May 26th, 2015 at 4:35pm
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