Pashinyan confessed to the mass murder, we demand to consider our report separately. Parent of fallen soldier

Parents and relatives of fallen servicemen are holding a protest on Aznavour Square.

From Charles Aznavour Square, we will move to the government building, give those criminals a gift, tell them what we think, and then we will go to the Prosecutor's office to submit documents and signatures, which were collected by parents and relatives, Anahit Manasyan, the aunt of one of the servicemen killed in the 44-day war, told journalists.

"We were summoned to the Prosecutor's office, talked to Prosecutor Muradyan, we were told that there were 4 more reports of a crime about the same person, Nikol Pashinyan, an investigation is underway. Our report will also join these cases. It's fundamentally unacceptable for us that our report will be investigated in the same case as other'," Anahit Manasyan said.

One of the parents noted that in Pashinyan's speech ("we could have stopped the war earlier, but, of course, we would have had the same situation, but without victims") there was a confession of mass murder and they will appeal to the Anti-Corruption Committee so that the case would be separated and considered separately. When asked if there is confidence that a proper investigation will be conducted under the current authorities, the parents answered: "You can't express distrust of all state structures and do nothing. We will be consistent so that a proper investigation is conducted."

Erdogan Accuses Turkish-Armenian Politician Of Treason 

azatutyun.am: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly condemned an ethnic Armenian member of Turkey’s parliament for demanding that Ankara officially recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

Erdogan said that a corresponding parliamentary resolution drafted by the opposition lawmaker, Garo Paylan, amounts to high treason. The resolution not only calls for a formal recognition of the genocide but also says that the Turkish authorities must rename streets bearing the names of Ottoman masterminds of the genocide and offer Turkish citizenship to Armenian descendants of its survivors. Paylan circulated the measure ahead of the 107^th anniversary of the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians marked on Sunday. Speaker Mustafa Sentop refused to include it on the parliament agenda. Paylan’s initiative provoked a storm of criticism from other senior Turkish officials as well as a spokesman for the ruling AKP party.

“We regard as clear treason the manifestation of such brazenness in this body symbolizing the expression of national will,” Erdogan said after chairing a cabinet meeting in Ankara on Monday.

Erdogan said that the Turkish authorities will take “appropriate actions” against Paylan. But he did not clarify whether the 49-year-old lawmaker representing the pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP will face criminal charges. The authorities have for years tried to strip Paylan of his parliamentary immunity from prosecution. Speaking to the CNN-Turk TV channel, Paylan described the furious reaction to his initiative as unprecedented. He said that similar resolutions drafted by in the past did not cause such a government outcry.

“I haven’t changed, which means that Turkey has,” he said, adding that Erdogan’s government is no longer willing to tolerate public actions challenging the official Turkish version of the events of 1915. The HDP is the only major Turkish party to have recognized the World War One-era mass killings of Armenians as genocide. Successive Turkish governments have denied a premeditated government effort to exterminate Ottoman Turkey’s Armenian population. Erdogan alleged in 2019 that Armenians themselves massacred Muslim civilians and that their mass deportations to a Syrian desert was “the most reasonable action that could be taken” by the Ottoman government. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu underscored Ankara’s stance on Saturday when he publicly made a hand gesture associated with the Turkish ultranationalist group Gray Wolves during a visit to Uruguay. Cavusoglu gestured to members of the South American country’s Armenian community demonstrating outside the Turkish Embassy in the capital Montevideo.

Turkish leader says Biden's genocide comment based 'on lies' 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday for again characterizing the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces as a “genocide,” saying the U.S. leader's statement was “based on lies and false information,” ABC news reports

In a televised address following a Cabinet meeting, Erdogan challenged Biden to “learn the history” concerning the Armenians, insisted that such statements were “provoking enmity” between the Turkish and Armenian people and maintained that the Armenian people would suffer the most from the “hypocrisy.” Biden on Sunday issued a statement commemorating the 107th anniversary of the start of the “Armenian genocide." The U.S. president had first used the term “genocide” during last year’s anniversary, fulfilling a campaign promise. Past presidents had avoided that word for decades out of a concern that Turkey - a NATO member - could be offended.

“Statements relating to the Armenian claims ... are of no effect to us,” Erdogan said.

“This is how we see the statement of the U.S. president, and we do not even find it worth dwelling on because it is all based on lies and false information.” Without mentioning his name, Erdogan also referred to Garo Paylan's bill on recognizing the Armenian Genocide submitted to the Turkish parliament. He described the move as "audacity" or "betrayal".

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