The commemoration began with a minute's silence and continued with the screening of a documentary.

Kurdish politician Mustafa Gökpınar evaluated the context and conditions in which the massacre of Maraş was carried out.

Emphasizing that the state mentality at the time was the same as the current state mentality, Gökpınar added that dictatorship is the feature when massacres happened, as was the case also with the Armenian genocide.