Turkish prosecutors have sent a report to the country’s Grand National Assembly (TMBB) requesting to lift the parliamentary immunity of an ethnic Armenian lawmaker, MP of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), Garo Paylan, APA reported citing Turkish media.
Prosecutors in Ankara have invoked Article 301, which criminalizes insulting the Turkish nation, and Article 299, which penalizes insulting the Turkish president. The Justice Ministry has approved the MP’s judgment.
Azerbaijani national academic Aygun Attar, former rector of Giresun University, has filed a criminal complaint in 2017 protesting Paylan’s depiction of the mass slaughter of more than a million Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as a genocide.
The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's office carried out an investigation, while the Justice Ministry approved the initiation of the criminal case. The Prosecutor's office appealed to the TMBB for lifting of Paylan’s parliamentary immunity.
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