Sun Apr 24,11:59 AM ET
Armenians lay flowers at the memorial to the Armenians killed in the Ottoman Empire during a memorial ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the mass killings, Yerevan, Sunday, April 24, 2005. Armenia accuses Turkey of genocide in the killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians, during World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, as part of a campaign to force them out of eastern Turkey. (AP Photo/Photolure, Mkhitar Khachatrian)
 

Sun Apr 24, 8:55 AM ET
Armenians visit the memorial to the dead to mark the 90th anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians in Yerevan, April 24, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of people clutching tulips, carnations and daffodils climbed a hill in Armenia's capital on Sunday to lay wreaths and remember the 1.5 million they say were killed 90 years ago in Ottoman Turkey.From the top the crowds could see the heights of Mount Ararat now in eastern Turkey, the region where Armenia says its people were slaughtered in a deliberate genocide during the chaos surrounding the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. The mountain is a potent symbol for the Christian nation but it lies out of reach across a fortified frontier. REUTERS/Photolure
 

Sun Apr 24, 8:55 AM ET
Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II (2nd R) speaks as Armenian President Robert Kocharyan (2nd L) attends a ceremony at the memorial to the dead, to mark the 90th anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians in Yerevan, April 24, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of people clutching tulips, carnations and daffodils climbed a hill in Armenia's capital on Sunday to lay wreaths and remember the 1.5 million they say were killed 90 years ago in Ottoman Turkey. REUTERS/Photolure
 

Sun Apr 24, 7:58 AM ET
People hold torches and state flags as they march through the streets of Yerevan. Tens of thousands of Armenians including the president and top officials filed through the towering Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to commemorate the 90th anniversary of mass killings by Ottoman Turks.(AFP/Hakob Berberyan)
 

Sun Apr 24, 6:27 AM ET
Armenians lower their flags during a memorial ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the memorial to the dead, Yerevan, early Sunday, April 24, 2005. Armenia accuses Turkey of genocide in the killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians, during World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, as part of a campaign to force them out of eastern Turkey. (AP Photo/Photolure)
 

Sun Apr 24, 5:11 AM ET
Armenians light candles during a memorial ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Moscow, Sunday, April 24, 2005. Armenia accuses Turkey of genocide in the killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians, during World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, as part of a campaign to force them out of eastern Turkey. Turkey rejects the claim, saying the number of deaths is inflated and that Armenians were killed or displaced in civil unrest during the collapse of the empire. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
 

Sat Apr 23, 5:19 PM ET
Young Armenians hold torches as they walk in a procession in central Yerevan, Armenia, April 23, 2005. While more than a million people in Armenia are expected to commemorate the start of what they say was a genocide against their people at the hands of Ottoman Turks, April 24 will pass without official ceremony in Turkey. Turkey denies a systematic campaign to wipe out Armeniansand says intercommunal strife during World War One claimed hundreds of thousands of Turkish as well as Armenian lives. REUTERS/Melik Bagdasarian
 

Fri Apr 22, 3:21 PM ET
Visiting Armenian President Robert Kotcharian and his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, background, stand before the Armenian Monument in Paris, after laying a wreath Friday, April 22, 2005. This weekend Armenia marks the 90th anniversary of what it calls the genocide perpetrated by Turkey between 1915 and 1917, killing up to 1.5 million Armenians. Turkey rejects the claim, saying the number of deaths is inflated and that the victims were killed in civil unrest during the collapse of the empire.(AP Photo/Patrick Kovarik, pool)
 

Thu Apr 21, 5:26 PM ET
Sako Shirikina, of San Francisco, holds up a sign recalling the Armenian Genocide during a remembrance at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, April 21, 2005. More than 500 people attended the ceremony which also marked the end of a 215 mile, 19 day march from Fresno to Sacramento, to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Nearly 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923 by the Ottoman Empire. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
 

Thu Apr 21, 5:21 PM ET
Marchers carrying a banner calling on Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian genocide walk past the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, April 21, 2005. The march, which started in Fresno and covered 215 miles over 19 days, ended in a rally were more than 500 people commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Nearly 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923 by the Turkish Ottoman Empire. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
 

Thu Apr 21, 5:26 PM ET
Dikran Sassounian, of Orange County, right, carries the Armenian flag up to the California state Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif., in the final leg of the 215 mile, 19 day March for Humanity held in remembrance of victims of the Armenian Genocide, Thursday, April 21, 2005. More than 500 people attend the ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Nearly 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923 by the Ottoman Empire. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
 

Wed Apr 20, 5:42 PM ET
In this photo provided by the Photlure photo agency in Armenia, a boy pauses in front of a wall-sized poster depicting the faces of 90 survivors of the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, in Yerevan, Armenia, April 20, 2005. The composition was done to commemorate the 90th anniversary this Sunday April 24th of the beginning of what Armenians say was the killing of 1.5 million of their people as the Ottoman Turks forced them from eastern Turkey between 1915 and 1923 _ and that this was a deliberate campaign of genocide. (AP Photo/Herbert Bagdasaryan, HO)
 

Wed Apr 20,10:14 AM ET
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians Karekin II speaks at a two day conference concerning the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan, Armenia Wednesday April 20, 2005. The conference is devoted to the 90th anniversary of the 1915 genocide against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire which Armenians mark on April 24. ( AP Photo )