The Saturday mothers (mothers of those killed in Turkish prisons) organization has held Armenian Genocide commemoration events at Galatasaray Square in Istanbul Saturday.

The organization members took part in the commemoration events with the photos of the Armenians killed on 24 April 1915, Istanbul-based Armenian Agos newspaper reports.

Deputy President of Republican People’s Party (CHP) Sezgin Tanrıkulu made an address at the event, stressing that the memory of the Armenian intelligence was honored in the Turkish parliament only after 101 years.