Kim Kardashian visits ancestral homeland of Armenia

Kim Kardashian waves on her way to a hotel in downtown Yerevan, Armenia. Image by (AP Photo/Hrant Khachatryan, PAN Photo)

US television star Kim Kardashian has arrived in the capital of her ancestral homeland Armenia for a visit expected to draw attention to the centennial of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians.

Armenia formally marks the killings by Ottoman Turks on April 24. Armenia calls the killings a genocide, a view widely supported by scholars, but Turkey vehemently rejects the term, maintaining that the figure is inflated and that many people on both sides died.

Kardashian, travelling with her husband Kanye West, their daughter North and sister Khloe, is expected to visit the vast complex in the capital Yerevan that commemorates the victims.

Her ancestors emigrated to the United States in the late 19th century.

(Press Association)