Baluken Urges Parliament to Investigate 1915 Genocide

Peace and Democracy Party Group Vice Chairperson İdris Baluken submitted a proposal to the parliament to launch an investigation on 1915 Armenian Genocide and open the archives in order to "find out the truth and emphasize on sufferings".  

Reminding that there are ongoing discussions on what happened during the relocation of Armenians and the atrocity allegations, and that several countries recognized the act of killings as genocide, the proposal continued: "Unless the measures are taken towards facing and researching the truth, this type of suffering will always be used."

The proposal underlined that facing the history and revealing the truth will help improve for a better living in the future.

Some of the highlight from the proposal included:

"The political stalemate that the Republic of Turkey is experiencing on the matter will be resolved only by facing its consequences. Departing from this, a thorough parliamentary investigation is required in order to find out the truth behind 1915 incidents.  

"We are proposing to open a parliamentary investigation aimed to open archives, analyze the related political decisions, shed light on the truth that remained in collective memory and analyze international documents in order  find out the truth, emphasize on sufferings and face the truth." (ÇT/BM)