To understand the current situation in Turkey, it is indispensable to go back to the beginning of the last century, to the situation before Armenian Genocide. 

Garo Paylan, Istanbul-Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament, stated the aforesaid at a conference in the US capital city of Washington D.C., reported the Voice of America Armenian service.

Paylan said Armenians used to make up 20 percent of Turkey’s population, whereas now, they are even less than 0.1 percent. He noted that they survived genocide, and that he was born in a family of genocide survivors.

The Armenian member of the Turkish parliament highlighted that unpunished crimes give birth to new crimes, and therefore today, the Kurds in Turkey are in virtually the same situation, in which the Armenians were a century ago.

He stressed that, at the turn of the last century, Armenians had asked solely for decentralization, but a highly centralized Turkey was formed after the genocide.

Garo Paylan added that, as a result, today, the ruler in Turkey is actually a sultan.