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Armenians in Iran commemorate Turkey killings

Several thousand members of the Armenian community in Iran have held a march in the capital, Tehran, to commemorate the large-scale killing of Armenians in Turkey in 1915.

Chanting anti-Turkish slogans, the demonstrators marched from the Armenian church to the United Nations office to demand that the UN recognise the 1915 killings as genocide.

On Monday, an Armenian deputy in the Iranian parliament called on Iran to do the same, in line with countries such as France and Italy. Turkey refuses to accept the term genocide and disputes the Armenian figure of one-and-half-million dead, saying the true figure is about three-hundred-thousand

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service