BDP SEEKS PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION FOR 1915 INCIDENTS
, Turkey
April 24 2013
Peace and Democracy Party submitted a motion to Turkish Parliament
in which he seeks the creation of a commission to investigate the
1915 incidents.
World Bulletin/News Desk
Pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) parliamentary group
deputy chairman Ä°dris Baluken has submitted a motion to Parliament
in which he seeks the creation of a commission to investigate the
1915 incidents.
Armenia, backed by many historians and parliaments in several
countries, says about 1.5 million Armenians were killed in what is now
eastern Turkey during World War I in a deliberate policy of genocide
ordered by the Ottoman government.
The Ottoman Empire dissolved after the end of the war, but successive
Turkish governments and the vast majority of Turks take the charge of
genocide as a direct insult to national pride. Turkey argues that the
killings occurred at a time of civil conflict in which both Armenians
and Turks were killed and that the casualty figures are inflated.
In 2005, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter
to then-Armenian President Robert Kocharyan proposing to establish a
joint committee of historians to study the incidents of 1915. However,
the Armenian government has not replied to this request by Erdogan.
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