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Members of the Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch on Thursday held a memorial ceremony at the city’s Haydarpasa railway station, from where 220 Armenian intellectuals were sent to their death on April 24, 1915.

Those who gathered at the station held the photographs of these intellectuals and a banner that read, “We commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide,” in Armenian, Turkish, and English, reported Objektifhaber website of Turkey.

The participants in the remembrance event placed carnations on the banner, and after the ceremony, threw these carnations into the sea.

Some participants were even moved to tears during the memorial event.

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