Mothers staged a meeting for children and Armenian intellectuals disappeared in custody on April 21 in Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square.
One of the participants Neriman Deniz reminded that it would be the 97th anniversary of the detention of the Armenian intellectuals on 24 April, 2012, bianet.org website says.
“There were 220 people: They were the opinion leaders, the most respected names in the Armenian community. Parlamentarians, intellectuals, writers, poets, musicians, scientists, lawyers, pharmacists, physicians...
The Interior Minister Talat Paşa gave the instructions and İstanbul Chief of Police performed the operation. The people taken into custody were brought to Ankara by train from Haydarpaşa. 139 of them were dead without a gravestone,” the article reads.
