Surprising provisions will be made in the regulation of the Turkish parliament.

In particular, MPs may be penalized from now on for speaking about Armenian Genocide, according to Hürriyet (Liberty) daily of Turkey.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the coalition partner Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have prepared a package of amendments to parliament regulations.

They also include imposing penalties to MPs if they insult and make accusations against the history of Turkish people and the shared past of the peoples living in Turkey. In such a case, the deputies could be banned from taking part in the parliamentary sessions and two-thirds of their salaries could be withheld.

“This provision targets the MPs’ attempts to call the events of 1915 a ‘genocide,’” noted the newspaper.