Ankara-Sana
Karu Baylan, a member of the Turkish Parliament for the HDP, called on this parliament to discuss the issue of the genocide that the Armenians were subjected to by the Ottoman authorities and to recognize this massacre.
Baylan said in a request submitted today to the Presidency of Parliament on the 24th of April 1915, 250 Armenian politicians, journalists and intellectuals were arrested and exiled to the cities of Cankry and Ayash near Ankara, and then they were all killed, as this was the beginning of the massacres carried out by the Ottoman Empire, which targeted the vast majority of Armenians who They lived within the borders of the Ottoman Empire.
This genocide has been discussed in many parliaments of the world that have recognized this as ethnic cleansing, and it is time for the Turkish parliament to discuss this issue with all objectivity and realism, stressing that Parliament should investigate this issue and reveal the whole truth and announce the names of all those responsible for this genocide. The ethnic cleansing that killed very large numbers of Armenian people.
As a result of this request, Baylan was subjected to a violent campaign by the media and social networks loyal to the Turkish regime, which demanded that his immunity be dropped and tried on charges of treason and insult to the Turkish state.
It is noteworthy that the Armenian genocide took place between the years 1915 and 192 and included killings, slaughter and genocide against the Armenian people and its climax was on April 24, 1915, when the Turkish Union and Promotion Party took a decision to exterminate the Armenians and deport their residents in the Ottoman Empire in accordance with a government decree.
Armenian sources and historians estimate the number of Armenians who were killed by the soldiers of the Ottoman Sultanate at about 1.5 million, which prompted many historians and many countries of the world to consider what happened as a genocide while successive Turkish regimes are trying to evade their legal and moral responsibilities towards this issue by claiming that What happened was a civil war in which between 300 and 500,000 Armenians were killed and an equal number of Turks.
