2015 Armenian March for Justice

The March for Justice on April 24, 2015 was a six-mile march of over 130,000[1] participants from the neighborhood designated as Little Armenia in Hollywood to the Turkish consulate of Los Angeles, demanding recognition of the Armenian genocide, which Turkey denies.

“One hundred years later, we shouldn’t have to take to the streets.”[2] Los Angeles Councilman Paul Krekorian spoke of his great-grandmother receiving a letter about what happened to her brother, a math professor at Euphrates College in eastern Turkey.

The brother had been seized by Turkish agents, who pulled the beard from his face.

[1] The LAPD asked the pro-Turkey demonstrators to leave as the pro-Armenian crowd approached the consulate.

[3] Many purple Forget-Me-Not flowers were displayed during the march, as this was the designated symbol of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.