Turkish Rights Group Confronts Parliament on Paylan Attacks
May 11, 2016
Garo Paylan calling for investigation of the killing of Armenian members of the Turkish Parliament during the Armenian Genocide.(Photo: Garo Paylan Facebook page)
ISTANBUL””Istanbul’s Committee Against Racism and Discrimination of the Human Rights Association of Turkey released a letter addressed to the President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, regarding the attack against Garo Paylan in parliament on May 2. Paylan, Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) Armenian Parliamentarian, and other HDP representatives were attacked by fellow Parliamentarians in the Turkish National Assembly. Paylan said that he was personally targeted by members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and that the attack on HDP members was planned in advance. He called the attack a premeditated “lynching”
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