Photos: North West shows off her playful side as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West swing her in the air

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West pictured swinging their visibly excited one-year-old daughter, North West, as they headed out to dinner in Armenia last night. More photos below…

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE  The Kardashian family have travelled to Armenia as the country prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on April 24th. During the eight-day trip, the group and a film crew will visit Yerevan’s genocide memorial and Armenia’s National Archives to see documents about the Kardashian family ancestors. Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin were killed between 1915 and 1917 as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart and have long sought to win international recognition of the massacres as genocide. Turkey rejects the claims, arguing that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops. Kim and her family have publicly supported international recognition of the massacres and in 2011, Kim wrote a blog post calling on Americans to recognise the slayings. ‘Until this crime is resolved truthfully and fairly, the Armenian people will live with the pain of what happened to their families and the fear of what might happen again to their homeland,’ the star wrote. On Thursday, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan received Kardashian and her family in the capital Yerevan and praised their contribution to ‘international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide,’ his press service said. KARDASHIAN’S CONNECTION TO ARMENIA   Robert Kardashian, father of Kim, Kourtney, Khloe and Robert Jr, was a third-generation Armenian American. The celebrity lawyer, who passed away in 2003 just eight weeks after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer, passed on his pride in his heritage to his family, who have been vocal about their Armenian roots. Robert’s ancestors fled the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century, thanks to a ‘prophet’ who urged them to uproot to America. Known at the time as the Kardaschoffs, in Russian style, the family made their way from their home village of Karakale in the late 19th Century to German ports. From there, they travelled to a new life in America on the passenger vessels SS Brandenberg and SS Koln. By doing so, they escaped the triple horror of the First World War from 1914-18, the ‘Armenian Genocide’ starting in 1915 – exactly a century ago this year – and the Russian Revolution in 1917. Among those fleeing Erzurum – then in Armenia, and ruled by last Russian Tsar Nicholas II – was family patriarch Hovhannes Miroyan and Kim’s great great grandfather, born in 1844. He married Luciag Chorbajian, born in 1853. The couple wed in Erzurum, which is now in Turkey, in 1867 but escaped along with their daughter Vartanoosh Mironyan, born in 1886, in the early 20th century. Vartanoosh’s distinctly blonde daughter Haigoohi Arakelian, known as Helen, was born in America in 1917, the year the Bolshevik Revolution rocked the Russian Empire. She was Kim’s grandmother, who later married into the Kardashian clan. The glamorous and ‘dynamic’ Helen wed Arthur who ran the largest meat-packing business in southern California. Helen’s son Robert married Kris Houghton and fathered the 21st Century’s biggest reality TV stars Kourtney, Khloe, Robert Jr and most famous of all – Kim. Their mother Kris eventually married Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner and together they raised two more TV personalities, Kendall and Kylie.

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Photos: North West shows off her playful side as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West  swing her in the air