Garo Paylan

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Garo Paylan

Garo (Garabed) Paylan ( Armenian Կարո Փայլան , * 1972 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish teacher and member of parliament of Armenian descent. He is an elected member of the Grand National Assembly .

Paylan's family is from Malatya and moved to Istanbul in 1969, where Garo was born in 1972. He graduated from the Faculty of Business Management at Istanbul University . In the 2015 parliamentary elections , he won a mandate for the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in the Istanbul II constituency (alongside Selina Özuzun Doğan from the CHP and Markar Esayan from the AKP as one of a total of three Armenians in this election ). Before he became a member of parliament, the qualified business economist was a teacher and coordinator for Armenian schools in Istanbul. He was re-elected in the new election in November of the same year. Since then he has been a member of the parliamentary committee for planning and budget.

He openly criticizes the denial of the Armenian genocide and was therefore frequently assaulted and booed in parliament. During a meeting for a constitutional amendment on May 2, 2016, Paylan was involved in a brawl in which Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ held him responsible for an argument the previous week.

Paylan complains about racist remarks about his Armenian origins; The Turkish Human Rights Association protested the violence against him .

In April 2018, the public prosecutor's office sought to lift Paylan’s parliamentary immunity for insulting Turks and the President.

On June 24, 2018, he was re-elected as a member of the People's Democratic Party in the Grand National Assembly.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garo Paylan: Mecliste 3 Ermeni aday olması değil, ne söyledikleri önemli | Agos. In: Agos. Retrieved May 4, 2016 (Turkish).
  2. ↑ Genocide Debate - The Last Armenian Village. In: Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved May 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Halkların Demokratik Partisi. June 30, 2015, archived from the original on June 30, 2015 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Garo Paylan Being Investigated for 'Insulting Turkishness' Under Turkey's Notorious Article 301 . In: The Armenian Weekly . May 17, 2018 ( armenianweekly.com [accessed August 9, 2018]).
  5. ^ Paylan Attacked in Parliament as AKP Strips MPs of Immunity . In: The Armenian Weekly . May 3, 2016 ( armenianweekly.com [accessed August 9, 2018]).
  6. ^ Turkish prosecution files motion against Garo Paylan seeking to strip ethnic Armenian MP of immunity . In: armenpress.am . ( armenpress.am [accessed August 9, 2018]).
  7. ^ Garo Paylan and Markar Esayan Re-Elected to Turkey's Parliament - Armenian News By MassisPost . In: Armenian News By MassisPost . June 25, 2018 ( massispost.com [accessed August 9, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Paylan, Garo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palan, Garabed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish MP
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul