Armenians and Poles, as well as Kurdish young people from around Poland gathered in Warsaw on Sunday, April 24 to participate in the Armenian Genocide commemorative events.

On Sunday, chief pastor of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Poland Fr. Tachat Tsaturyan served a liturgy at the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and of St. Joseph in the Polish capital.

The attendees then processed to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising Monument to launch a rally through the joint efforts of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Poland and the local Armenian Youth Union, A1plus reports.

The march then progressed to the Armenian Park, where Fr. Tachat prayed for the victims of the Armenian Genocide. A candlelight vigil was organized afterwards.

Another protest campaign against Turkey's denialist policy was organized in the Belgian capital city, Brussels, where some 1000 demonstrators gathered to honor the memory of Genocide victims.

The Armenian Genocide was on Sunday commemorated in a number of major cities around the globe, including Los Angeles, Istanbul, Moscow, Washington, New York, Tehran, Amsterdam to name a few.