Fresno’s Honorary Consul to Armenia Berj K. Apkarian raises the country’s flag at the annual Armenian genocide commemoration and flag-raising ceremony at Fresno City Hall on April 24, 2025.

Fresno’s Honorary Consul to Armenia Berj K. Apkarian raises the country’s flag at the annual Armenian genocide commemoration and flag-raising ceremony at Fresno City Hall on April 24, 2025.

In 2021 then-President Joe Biden gave official U.S. recognition to the Armenian Genocide, straining relations with Turkey’s government, which has always denied such an event occurred.

FITCHBURG — Area residents who are part of the local Armenian diaspora, and those who love the country of Armenia, are invited to a flag raising of the Armenian flag at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 24 ...

April 24 marks 109 years since the Armenian Genocide. A flag-raising ceremony was held Wednesday morning at Fresno City Hall.

The Armenian flag, right, waves in the wind outside Fresno City Hall after a flag-raising ceremony in remembrance of the 1915 Armenian genocide, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 in Fresno.

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- The local Armenian community came to City Hall for a flag raising in recognition of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, which will be ...