Armenian memorial in Marseille
The Armenian Memorial in Marseille is a COR-TEN steel column near the Armenian Church of Saint Sahak and Mesrop on Avenue du Prado .
The memorial commemorates the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during the genocide of the Armenians in World War I and of the Armenian fighters on the French side in World War II .
The monument was inaugurated in 1973. It is a scaled-down replica of the Zizernakaberd monument in the Armenian capital Yerevan . A plaque bears the inscription in French "In memory of 1,500,000 Armenians, victims of the genocide, ordered by the Turkish government in 1915 - In honor of the Armenian fighters and resistance fighters who died for freedom and France".
In 1973, the Turkish government recalled its ambassador from France to protest the memorial.
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- ↑ Jacques Derogy: Resistance and Revenge: The Armenian Assassination of the Turkish Leaders Responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportation. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick NJ 1990, 196
Coordinates: 43 ° 16 ′ 14 " N , 5 ° 23 ′ 19.9" E