HayPost presents stamps dedicated to the Armenian Genocide

Within the framework of “Against the Crime of Genocide Global Forum” which takes place on April 22-23 of this year at the Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, HayPost CJSC has organized an exhibition of Armenian stamps dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1915.

28 stamps and souvenir sheets exhibited during the event are dedicated to distinguished Armenian writers, poets, composers and public figures, victims of the Genocide, such as Siamanto, Daniel Varuzhan, Grigor Zohrap, Ruben Sevak, Komitas; as well as survivors of the Genocide (Aurora Mardiganian, orphans of Melkonian Educational Institute in Cyprus) as well as prominent figures who helped the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and defended the Armenian case, such as Johannes Lepsius, Fridtjof Nansen, James Bryce, Franz Werfel, Karen Jeppe, Maria Jacobsen, John Kirakossian.

Within the framework of the events dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, “Haypost” CJSC will also officially cancel and put into circulation a postage stamp dedicated to the “Centennial of the Armenian Genocide; Anatole France” on April 23rd 2015, at 13:30.