The AKP party and its extreme right-wing allies in the Turkish Parliament agreed to adopt a resolution tabled on Friday that would ban the use of the words “Armenian genocide” and “Kurdistan” by Members of Parliament.
In the draft resolution on parliamentary procedure written by the AKP and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), legislators demand that the use of expressions such as “the provinces of Kurdistan”, “the capital of Kurdistan Amed” Condemned by a fine.
Amed is an ancient name of the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, often used by Kurdish nationalist political groups including the HDP Party.
he bill also prohibits terms such as “genocide” in relation to 1915 and the systematic extermination and deportation of the Armenian people by the Ottoman government, or “massacre” in reference to the many military campaigns against the Kurds since the beginning of the 20th century.
In addition to a fine, the Speaker of Parliament could temporarily oust legislators.
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