Sezgin Tanrıkulu suggests issuing citizenship to descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS. Deputy leader of Turkey’s Republican People's Party Sezgin Tanrıkulu has submitted a draft law to Majlis, which suggests issuing Turkish citizenship to the Armenians who were forcibly displaced from their homeland during the Armenian Genocide, as well their descendants up to four generations. “Armenpress” report the aforementioned, citing Milliyet.

The draft law suggests, in particular, to issue citizenship of Turkey to all the citizens who since the beginning of World War I have been living in areas which are Turkey’s current territory and who have been exiled, displaced and deprived of Turkish citizenship and are currently alive, or their representatives up to 4th generation. Thus, this will affect the representatives of national minorities of the Armenian Genocide, as well as those suffering the events of September 6-7, 1955, mainly the Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks.