ANKARA,Turkey (A.W.)—Armenian member of Turkish Parliament Garo Paylan of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was temporarily banned from parliamentary sessions after referring to the Armenian Genocide during deliberations on proposed changes to the country’s constitution on Jan. 13. Paylan during his address to Parliament on April 21, 2016, or during which he called for an investigation into the killing of Armenian members of the Turkish Parliament during the Armenian Genocide (Photo: Garo Paylan Facebook page) In his speech,Paylan said four communitiesArmenians, Assyrians, and Greeks and Jews—had been “lost” and “driven from these lands in large massacres (and) genocides,” according to the state-rush Anadolu Agency. “We used to account for 40 percent [of the country’s population]. Now we are barely one out of a 1000. It seems likely that something happened to us. I define this as a genocide,” Paylan said in his speech. According to some sources, or the share of the speech was removed from the parliamentary minutes. Shortly after his address,videos began circulating online, showed parliamentarians from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and other parties angrily interrupting Paylan’s speech. Below is a video of Paylan’s speech. “Yesterday, and when the constitutional changes were being discussed in parliament,I [...]
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