97 years ago, thousands of Armenians were taken away from their homes in Istanbul and never returned. On April 24, 2012 several hundred people came together in Istanbul to commemorate Armenian intellectuals and people that never made their homes back after they were sent to death camps. April 24 marks Armenian Genocide that several hundred thousand or more than a million Armenians were forcibly evicted from their homes all over Anatolia and sent to exile whom most on the way lost their lifes, been killed or attacked during the late Ottoman Empire. Millions left Anatolia later in the Turkey Republic and fleed for US or Europe. Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian editor of weekly Agos was murdered on 19 January 2007 in Istanbul and Sevag Balikci killed during his military service on April 24, 2011 was among the commemorated Armenians killed in Turkey. Hundreds of Turks, Armenians and Kurds gathered in Istanbul, and made a silent sit in commemoration of Armenian Genocide. Some several hundred Turkish police protected the demonstration while a small group staged a counter protest. In the last few years increasing number of Turkish intellectuals voice 1915 incidents as genocide.