Connect with us

News

Kim & Khloe Kardashian, Kanye West and North in Armenia Before Anniversary of Mass Killings

Avatar photo

Published

 on

Celebrity Sighting In Paris

U.S. reality TV star, Kim Kardashian received a rapturous welcome in her ancestors’ homeland, Armenia, on a visit that could draw attention to the 100th anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in 1915.

Hundreds of fans greeted Kardashian, her rapper husband Kanye West, their child North West and Kardashian’s sister Khloe Kardashian in the capital Yerevan on Wednesday night.

“Armenia we are here!!!!! We are so grateful to be here & start this journey of a lifetime! Thank you to everyone who greeted us!” Kardashian wrote on her Instagram account.

“I can’t wait to explore our country and have some yummy food!” added the star of the reality show “Keeping up with the Kardashians”.

She made no mention of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman soldiers in World War One but some fans hoped the visit would put the spotlight on anniversary events on April 24.

Some Western historians and some foreign parliaments call the mass killings genocide.

“On Facebook and other social media, there are maybe tens of millions of people, not Armenians (who follow her),” said a middle-aged man, outside Kardashian’s hotel in Yerevan. If they get informed about genocide, what and who we are, what happened to us, I think it will have a positive impact anyway,” he said.

Muslim Turkey accepts many Christian Armenians died in partisan fighting beginning in 1915 but denies that up to 1.5 million were killed and that it amounted to genocide.

Photo Credit: Getty Images

Avatar photo

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) was established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in May 1976 to gather and distribute news on Nigeria and cover events of interest to Nigeria at the international level for the benefit of the Nigerian Media and the Public.

css.php