Armradio.am. Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Sentop has returned HDP lawmaker Garo Paylan’s bill on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, maintaining that it contradicts the provisions of the Rules of Procedure, NTV reports.
Paylan submitted the bill on April 22, close to the end of working hours, and Sentop wrote the letter to send it back the next day.
Unveiled on the eve of the 107th anniversary of the 107th anniversary of the Genocide, the bill also demanded the removal of the names of the the masterminds and perpetrators of the Genocide from public places, the naming of those places in honor of officials who opposed the Genocide, as well as the granting of Turkish citizenship to the victims and their families.
