Paylan The Turkish parliament must recognize the genocide
The issue of the recognition of the Armenian genocide is interacting especially after the recent U.S. recognition of the genocide, according to a news website. Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party, has proposed a law to officially recognize the Armenian genocide.
Recognition of 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 have died from this world without seeing justice done.” “As did the second generation (of survivors), my father.” As a third-generation Armenian in 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 the Armenian genocide can only be done on these lands, in Turkey.”
Turkey’s Stand Up to Genocide
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 any planning or management, and were on a far smaller scale than the academic consensus of 1.5 million Christians.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a statement addressed to the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul : “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 Saturday. “I believe that building our identity solely on the pain that the past has left to our souls is also a grave injustice to new generations”.
On the same day, after a phone call with Erdoğan, President Joe Biden officially acknowledged 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 their mostly Kurdish Ottoman perpetrators 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, currently 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 battle groups to assist 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 expulsion of Armenians from eastern Anatolia. Thousands headed south to Syria and the Levant. According to Armenians, 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.
She says thousands of Turks and Armenians died in ethnic violence when the empire began to unravel and confront Russia’s invasion of its eastern provinces during World War I.
