Diyarbarkir Bar Association and Human Rights NGO held an event dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

During it, lawyer and human rights defender Mehmet Emin told about Armenians' deportation from Diyarbakir vilayet. According to him, the state should apologize to heirs of victims of injustice and oppression.

"We should conceive the past to protect the truth. The right to life was violated during the Armenian Genocide, a forcible deportation was implemented, serving as an additional reason for uncountable deaths. It is necessary to initiate a criminal case, open the national archives for independent researchers and fairly recognize the number of victims," Etkin Haber Ajansı quoted Emin as saying.