="justify">Head of "Komitas" institute, London, taking part in the event Each year on April 21 the Armenian people commemorate the victims of the Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.

Mourning events are being organized in the US, France, Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, the Arabic and Latin American states and Iran. Poland, Georgia and, according to "Milliet" columnist Semihj Idiz, Israel.

In short, each year the number of the states remembering the victims of the Armenian Genocide is growing. More and more statesmen, political and social figures from different countries are taking part in events dedicated to the one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.

Expert of the Armenian Researches Institute of Ankara Yildiz Deveci invites the public attention to this fact in the Institute's April 21 bulletin and notes that the week-long events in Moscow are organized by the Union of Armenian Russians, and the events in California are announced by Governor Schwarzenegger himself.

Yildiz Deveci also makes comments about the "What Happened on April 24" discussion, organized on the same day in Istanbul. Before analyzing the comments of Deveci, let us inform that the discussion is organized by the Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Union. Head of the "Komitas" institute Ara Sarafian (London) was invited and took part in the event. He is to make a report about the reason why the Armenians consider April 24 the beginning of the massacres.

Although the number of the attendants of the discussion is rather small, Human Rights Defender Ragip Zarakolu is included among the rapporteurs. His report is entitled "April 24 - the Beginning of Elimination of the Intellectuals". Another Rapporteur, ex-director of the Human Rights Union Ereb Keskin is entitled "April 24, 1915 in Human Rights Aspect".

More information shall still be provided about the discussion in Istanbul. In conclusion let us mark that Armenian Researches Institute Yildiz Deveci is sure that Turkey, having organized such a discussion, is unconsciously joining the long list of states, which commemorate the Armenian Genocide. Deveci concludes that such events may result in growing support in Turkey for the "Armenians' claims about genocide" .