Thousands gathered for a torchlit procession in Yerevan on Tuesday to commemorate those Armenians killed in Ottoman, Turkey, more than a century ago.
An estimated 1.5 million people were killed in the events that are widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.
Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
Yerevan residents gathered at the central square, burned Turkish and Azerbaijani flags, lit torches, and marched through the streets with a procession accompanied by an orchestra.
Armenia formally observes Genocide Remembrance Day on 24 April, marking the start of the killings in 1915.
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