Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on Parliament Hill

Hundreds gathered on the east side of Parliament Hill to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Sunday, even as hundreds more gathered on the west side to protest the term genocide.

Ottoman authorities in what is now Turkey rounded up and killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians beginning on April 24, 1915.

Though Canada and other countries recognizethe slaughter of Armenians around the time of the First World War as a genocide, Turkey rejects the term and disputes the number of peoplekilled.