Artin Boshgezenian (1861-1923[1]), was an Armenian deputy for Aleppo in the first (1908–1912), second (April–August 1912) and third (1914–1918) Ottoman Parliaments of the Constitutional Era.

[2] He was a left-leaning politician who supported workers' rights and women's suffrage.

[citation needed] During the brief period between the collapse of the Committee of Union and Progress regime in October 1918 and the dissolution of the parliament in December 1918, Boshgezenian made several strong speeches denouncing the outgoing government for crimes committed during the Armenian genocide.

He was a judge in the War Crimes Tribunal which led to the conviction and hanging of Mehmed Kemâl Bey, the notorious district governor of Boğazlıyan, who was accused of atrocities against the deported Armenians in the central Anatolian province of Yozgat.

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...