Armenian deputy calls the Turkish parliament to recognize the genocide

“The issue of recognizing the Armenian genocide is particularly interacting after the recent U.S. recognition of the genocide, a news website reported that Garo Paylan, an Armenian MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party, has proposed a law to officially recognize the Armenian genocide.”

Paylan described the events of 1915 as a “great catastrophe” in a speech in the Turkish parliament, calling for the mass deportation and murder of nearly 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, which was devastated by World War I, to be recognized as genocide.

Paylan said : “Orphans like my grandmother died from this world without seeing justice done.” “As did the second generation (of survivors), my father.” As a third-generation Armenian from Turkey, I am pursuing justice in Turkey, in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

Paylan said : “The Armenian genocide took place on these lands, and only in Turkey can the Armenian genocide be brought to justice.”

He added that Turkey’s response to the genocide “will remove the importance of what any other parliament says.” “It is still a topic in other parliaments, for other presidents, because the Armenian genocide has been denied for 106 years.”

Turkey contends that Ottoman-era deaths occurred in wartime conditions without planning or planning, and were on a far smaller scale than the academic consensus of 1.5 million Christians.

Addressing the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement: “No one has benefited from the discussions that historians should actually have, but they have been politicized by third parties and turned into an instrument of intervention against our country,” Sahak Mashalian said on Saturday. “I believe that building our identity solely on the pain that the past has left for our souls is also a grave injustice to new generations.”

On the same day, after a phone call with Erdoğan, President Joe Biden officially recognized the events as genocide, drawing condemnation from Ankara.

In the late nineteenth century, the two million Armenians of the Ottoman Empire began to express their national aspirations.

Repression by its mostly Kurdish perpetrators of the Ottoman Empire led to massacres of tens of thousands of Armenians between 1894 and 1896 in eastern Anatolia, now eastern Turkey. “Several thousand others were killed in Constantinople, now Istanbul, in August 1896 after Armenian hardliners seized the Ottoman bank.”

“While the Ottomans were fighting Russian forces in eastern Anatolia in World War I, many Armenians formed fighting groups to help the invading Russian armies.”

On 24 April 1915 the Ottoman Empire arrested and eventually killed hundreds of Armenian intellectuals.

In May 1915, Ottoman leaders began a mass deportation of Armenians from eastern Anatolia. Thousands headed south to Syria and the Levant. Armenians say 1.5 million died in massacres or from hunger and stress in the desert.

Turkey, founded in 1923 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, has consistently denied that there has been a systematic campaign of Armenian genocide.

It says that thousands of Turks and Armenians died in ethnic violence when the empire began to disintegrate and confront Russia’s invasion of its eastern provinces during World War I.