Artin Boshgezenian
Artin Boshgezenian | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Constituency | Aleppo (1908, 1912, 1914) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1861 Antep, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1923 Aleppo, State of Aleppo |
| Citizenship | Ottoman Empire |
| Political party | Committee of Union and Progress |
Artin Boshgezenian (1861-1923
Life
He was a left-leaning politician who supported workers' rights and women's suffrage. He was the author of a motion to make adultery a civil offense for men, as against the traditional view which held only women punishable for adultery.[citation needed]
Speech
During the brief period between the collapse of the
Boshgezenian speaking about the law on deportation,
The matter is not finished simply by ending the law... The law is a knife, an ax, responsible for so many crimes. Let us not attempt to correct these crimes just by blunting the knife... A great deal of innocent blood has been spilled as a result... It is impossible to determine the number of burned or destroyed homes. This threeline law is a fearful thing. We must overturn it in both form and substance... But along with cancelling it, we must also move to punishment, without exception, of those who destroyed the country on the basis of this law; those who used and exploited the law by conspiring to murder must be punished. The matter is not ended just by putting away the weapons.[3]
References
- ^ Emre Can Daglioglu; Tamar Nalcı. "'Farklı bir mebus': Artin Boşgezenyan". Agos (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 September 2021.
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- A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. p. 253.