Erdogan seeks to strip several opposition MPs, including Garo Paylan, of immunity

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 14:11, 6 October, 2021

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6, ARMENPRESS. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan requested parliament to strip several opposition pro-Kurdish lawmakers of immunity, including the ethnic Armenian MP Garo Paylan from Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Two other HDP lawmakers and one Democratic Regions Party (DBP) MP are mentioned in the motion, Yeni Safak reports.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS