The Istanbul-based Human Rights Association (İHD) filed a criminal complaint against far-right independent member of the Turkish Parliament Ümit Özdağ, who threatened Garo Paylan with facing the same fate as his ancestors
Armenian Genocide Warning by Far-Right Turkish Lawmaker Prompts Criminal Complaint
On 4/28/21 at 9:58 AM EDT
A criminal complaint has been filed against a far-right Turkish politician for tweets about the mass killings of Armenians, amid a heated debate over the topic in the days since President Joe Biden recognized the deaths as genocide.
The Human Rights Association in Turkey has filed the complaint against the independent lawmaker Ümit Özdağ, who engaged in a Twitter spat with Garo Paylan, a Turkish politician of Armenian descent.
On April 24, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Biden said: Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide.
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Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan (C), with his children Kerem (L) and Senem (R), poses for AFP at his home minutes after he arrived following his release from jail, in Istanbul, Turkey, 14 April 2021, BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images Altan and his co-defendant Nazlı Ilıcak, whose conviction was also overturned, were sentenced in November 2019 to 10 years and 6 months and 8 years and 9 months in prison respectively, on the charge of “aiding a terrorist organization .
This statement was originally published on expressioninterrupted.com on 14 April 2021.
The court also overturned the conviction of Nazlı Ilıcak, who was sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison for “aiding a terrorist organization” at the retrial