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Cronología del genocidio armenio y del debate sobre su reconocimiento

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23 de abril de 2015 - 11:02 p. m.

A woman walks past an archive photograph during an exhibition about the Armenian Genocide at the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan on April 21, 2015. Armenians prepare to commemorate on April 24 a hundred years since 1.5 million of their kin were massacred by Ottoman forces, as a fierce dispute still rages with Turkey over Ankara's refusal to recognise the mass murder as genocide. AFP PHOTO / KAREN MINASYAN

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Liliana Samuel Armenian Lucin Khatcherian (R), 106, the sole survivor of the Armenian Genocide living in Argentina, and her son Eduardo, 74, look at old family pictures and documents during an interview she offered to AFP, in Buenos Aires, on April 16, 2015. A hundred years on, Khatcherian refuses to forget the genocide which wiped out up to 1.5 million of her kin as a fierce dispute still rages with Turkey over one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. AFP PHOTO / ALEJANDRO PAGNI

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TOPSHOTS A woman lights a candle during a religious service at the cathedral in Etchmiadzin, outside Yerevan, on April 23, 2015, ahead of the canonization ceremony for the Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide. Armenians prepare to commemorate on April 24 a hundred years since 1.5 million of their kin were massacred by Ottoman forces, as a fierce dispute still rages with Turkey over Ankara's refusal to recognise the mass murder as genocide. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV

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TO GO WITH AFP STORIES ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute purportedly shows Armenians hung by Ottoman forces in Constantinople in June 1915. Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their forebears were killed in a 1915-16 genocide by Turkey's former Ottoman Empire. Turkey says 500,000 died and ascribes the toll to fighting and starvation during World War I. AFP PHOTO / ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM INSTITUTE

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A picture taken on April 16, 2015 shows a girl visiting the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan. Armenians prepare to commemorate on April 24 a hundred years since 1.5 million of their kin were massacred by Ottoman forces, as a fierce dispute still rages with Turkey over Ankara's refusal to recognise the mass murder as genocide. AFP PHOTO / KAREN MINASYAN

AFP - KAREN MINASYAN

TOPSHOTS People lay flowers at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on April 21,2015. Armenians prepare to commemorate on April 24 a hundred years since 1.5 million of their kin were massacred by Ottoman forces, as a fierce dispute still rages with Turkey over Ankara's refusal to recognise the mass murder as genocide. AFP PHOTO / KAREN MINASYAN

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TO GO WITH AFP STORIES ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute dated 1915 purportedly shows soldiers standing over skulls of victims from the Armenian village of Sheyxalan in the Mush valley, on the Caucasus front during the First World War. Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their forebears were killed in a 1915-16 genocide by Turkey's former Ottoman Empire. Turkey says 500,000 died and ascribes the toll to fighting and starvation during World War I. AFP PHOTO / ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM INSTITUTE

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A 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

AFP - BORIS HORVAT

A screen shows a forget-me-not flower to symbolize the centenary of the Armenian Genocide as people look at pictures during an exhibition about the Armenian Genocide in the southern French city of Marseille on April 20, 2015, as Armenians prepare to commemorate a hundred years since 1.5 million of their kin were massacred by Ottoman forces. 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

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Iranian Armenian Jenia Grigorian shows pictures of her younger years as she stands at her room at an Armenian care home at the Julfa neighbourhood in the historic city of Isfahan, some 400 kms south of Tehran, on April 20, 2015. Julfa neighborhood in Isfahan 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 60000 today, according to official figures. Most of the community immigrated to United States, Canada and Western Europe, according to the figures published by the community officials. AFP PHOTO / BEHROUZ MEHRI

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Iranian Muslim locksmith Ali Bagherian prays inside his shop, owned by his family for almost one hundred years, at the heart of the Armenian Julfa neighbourhood in the historic city of Isfahan some 400 kms south of the capital Tehran, on April 20, 2015. Julfa neighborhood in Isfahan 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 60000 today, according to official figures. Most of the community immigrated to United States, Canada and Western Europe, according to the figures published by the community officials. AFP PHOTO / BEHROUZ MEHRI

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Agasi Vartanyan gestures from inside a glass enclosure built at the St. Leon Armenian Cathedral in Burbank, California on April 22, 2015, where he is in the midst of a 55-day fast, surviving only on water, in memory of the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Los Angeles is home to one of the largest populations of Armenians in the world outside of Armenia and tens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Los Angeles again on April 24th for the annual march from Little Armenia to the Turkish Consulate to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian mass killings. AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN

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Lebanese-Armenians pose for a picture next to a flame at the entrance of the Armenian Martyrs memorial at the Saint Stephano church on the eve of the 100 hundred year anniversary of the Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces a century ago, in the Armenian Orthodox Archdeocese of Antelias, north of Beirut, on April 23, 2015. Armenians around the world are marking the centenary of the World War I-era mass killings of their kin by Ottoman Turks in what they insist was a genocide -- a term fiercely rejected by Turkey. AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID

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Armenians visit the Armenian Martyrs memorial at the Saint Stephano church during on the eve of the 100 hundred year anniversary of the Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces a century ago, in the Armenian Orthodox Archdeocese of Antelias, north of Beirut, on April 23, 2015. Armenians around the world are marking the centenary of the World War I-era mass killings of their kin by Ottoman Turks in what they insist was a genocide -- a term fiercely rejected by Turkey. AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID

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Members of the Armenian community march with flags and torches on April 23, 2015 in Jerusalem, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Armenia says an estimated 1.5 million people were killed by Ottoman forces in what it calls a genocide. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON

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A man walks past archive photographs during an exhibition about the Armenian Genocide at the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan on April 21, 2015. Armenians prepare to commemorate on April 24 a hundred years since 1.5 million of their kin were massacred by Ottoman forces, as a fierce dispute still rages with Turkey over Ankara's refusal to recognise the mass murder as genocide. AFP PHOTO / KAREN MINASYAN

AFP - KAREN MINASYAN

A man stands by archive photographs during an exhibition about the Armenian Genocide at the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan on April 21, 2015. Armenians prepare to commemorate on April 24 a hundred years since 1.5 million of their kin were massacred by Ottoman forces, as a fierce dispute still rages with Turkey over Ankara's refusal to recognise the mass murder as genocide. AFP PHOTO / KAREN MINASYAN

AFP - KAREN MINASYAN

Members of the Armenian community march with flags and torches on April 23, 2015 in Jerusalem's Old City, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Armenia says an estimated 1.5 million people were killed by Ottoman forces in what it calls a genocide. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON

AFP - GALI TIBBON

A young man holds up an Armenian flag during a rally on April 23, 2015 in Paris, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Church conferred sainthood on some 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces a century ago, as tensions raged over Turkey's refusal to recognise the killings as genocide. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET

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BR01. BERLÍN (ALEMANIA), 23/04/2015.- Un hombre enciende velas durante la "Procesión de los Faroles del Olvido" durante la conmemoración del centenario del genocidio armenio hoy, jueves 23 de abril de 2015, frente a la Catedral de Berlín (Alemania). EFE/BRITTA PEDERSEN

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