Artin Boşgezenyan
Artin Boşgezenyan ( Armenian Արթին Բոշգեզենյան ) was an Armenian-born MP in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies for Aleppo in the first (1908–1912), second (April – August 1912) and third (1914–1918) legislative periods of the Second Constitutional Era . He was a member of the Committee on Unity and Progress .
Life
Boşgezenyan emerged as a left-wing politician who advocated workers' rights and women's suffrage. He was also the author of a motion which, contrary to the traditional view, should also make adultery of men a tort.
In 1918, in several speeches, he accused the resigning government of crimes committed against the Armenians from 1914 to 1918 during the genocide .
He was also a judge of the "Diwan des Nemrut Mustafa " when the Kaymakam of Boğazlıyan , Mehmed Kemâl , was sentenced to death on April 10, 1919.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aktar, A. (2007). "Debating the Armenian Massacres in the Last Ottoman Parliament, November December 1918". History Workshop Journal 64: 240. doi : 10.1093 / hwj / dbm046 .
- ↑ Taner Akçam: Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. London 2007, pp. 280 and 283
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Boşgezenyan, Artin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boschgezenian, Artin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ottoman-Armenian MP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |