Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) Assyrian MP Erol Dora introduced a bill to the country’s parliament on making an amendment to the citizenship law in Turkey.

The bill envisions the granting of Turkish citizenship to the descendants of those who were deprived of their citizenship for different reasons after the dislocation in 1915, Demokrathaber website of Turkey reports.

Dora explained what the descendants need to submit to be granted Turkish citizenship, and he pointed to the respective list.

Erol Dora also noted that famous Armenian artists William Saroyan and Aram Dikran had wished to be buried in the lands of their forebears, but even this was denied for them, and he stressed that the new bill will somewhat rectify similar mistakes.

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