SPOKANE, Wash. – Skewers Armenian Restaurant announced on Friday that the restaurant would be closed in observance of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
“On this day in 1915, Turkey began a calculated and sinister campaign to exterminate the Armenian race,” a spokesperson for the restaurant said. “Over 1.5 million lives were lost. Many more, displaced. Families, culture, and identity were targeted.”
The restaurant’s statement emphasized the sacrifice of the Armenians fighting back against this genocidal campaign, which allowed Armenian culture to survive…