 On the committee, he was his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on citizen participation.When Mutlu voted in a favor of a symbolic resolution in 2016 that remembered and condemned the 1915 Armenian Genocide by Ottoman forces, which Turkey refuses to acknowledge, he became one of eleven MPs of Turkish origin who received increased police protection and further security measures for both their professional and private activities.Also, Germany's foreign ministry warned him against travelling to Turkey because his safety could not be guaranteed after statements by Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan suggesting that German lawmakers of Turkish origin had "tainted blood".