On April 24, Committee against Racism and Discrimination (Human Rights Association, Istanbul Office) held an Armenian Genocide commemoration event. The Committee members honored the memory of victims in front of the Museum of Turkish Islamic Monuments, which comprised a prison back in 1915 with Armenian intellectuals kept there.

Human Rights Association member read out the letters addressed to Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II. Afterwards the action participants marched to the post office and sent the letters to Ejmiatsin and Antelias. They further marched to the grave of ethnic Armenian serviceman Sevag Şahin Balıkçı murdered on April 24, 2011 and the monument to Genocide victim famous Armenian poet, Daniel Varujan.