The moves by some politicians, who are prepared to touch upon other topics for the sake of their own interests, continue to take aback, UA-Report.info informs.  

Mustafa Dzhemilev is Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and a member in the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council; i.e., the Parliament) of Ukraine. His son is accused of murder.

In connection with the registration of the Armenian Genocide recognition bill at the Rada, he stated: “The number of Turkic peoples in Ukraine is several times higher than the number of Armenians. The authors of the bill should understand the threats its recognition will cause.”

“Mustafa Dzhemilev cannot directly blackmail the opposition party members and threaten to leave the [party] faction. But he needs to save his son. That is why Dzhemilev decided to blackmail with a ‘leftist’ topic: the Armenian Genocide,” Ukrainian political theorist Anatoliy Sharia wrote in Polemika portal.

But it is not clear why the recognition of the Armenia Genocide causes so much concern for Mustafa Dzhemilev. The topic is refers to the Ottoman Empire, and not the Crimean Khanate.        

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, Ukraine may recognize the Armenian Genocide. A bill, with respect to recognizing the mass annihilation of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, was registered on June 6 in the Verkhovna Rada. Arsen Avakov, Vilen Shatvoryan, and Nver Mkhitaryan are the persons behind this law proposal.