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Kim and Kourtney Kardashian pay respects at homeland Armenian Genocide Memorial


Kim and Kourtney Kardashian returned to Armenia to mark the anniversary of the mass genocide in 1915. (Picture: VIA REUTERS)

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian headed back to her homeland of Turkey to visit the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial today with other members of her family.

Kourtney and her children Mason and Penelope joined Kim to lay flowers on in Yerevan on Tuesday to remember the 1.5 million Armenians who lost their lives in 1915 during a horrific mass killing.

Kim’s late father, Robert Kardashian, has Armenian ancestors, which is why the businesswoman attended the service today and has done so previously, on 24 April 2015, for the 100th anniversary of the deaths.

This genocide took place in 1915, although Turkey denies the killings.

The memorial was then built in 1967 for the 1.5 million people who lost their lives, in the middle of which an eternal flame burns.

Kim has previously said she is ‘saddened’ by the reality that ‘not everyone has recognised that a huge number of innocent people were ‘murdered’ by the Ottoman Empire.

The eternal flame burns to remember the 1.5 million people killed (Picture: KAREN MINASYAN)

The Kardashians’ Armenian ancestors are on their father’s side and his family emigrated to the US from a place that is situated in today’s Turkey.

Proving to us that she’s some kind of superwoman, Kim was also at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) convention today.

Fans took selfies with Kim at the memorial (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

At the convention, held at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex in Yerevan, Kim donned an amazing white business suit and spoke about her beauty empire.

The convention welcomed world-leading academics, entrepreneurs and technologists to talk about its theme of The Power of Decentralization: Promise and Peril.

All in one day, Kim also attended the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2019) in Yerevan (Picture: Reuters)

Kim took to the stage with businesswoman Magdalene Yesil and then later was on a panel with Alex Chung, Alexis Ohanian. Reddit founder and Serena Williams’ husband, and the founder of PicsArt Hovhannes Avoyan.

She’ll definitely sleep well tonight.



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