{"id":117389,"date":"2011-08-02T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=117389"},"modified":"2011-08-02T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:03:14","slug":"azerbaijani-singer-forced-to-remove-armenian-friend-from-facebook-friends-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/08\/02\/azerbaijani-singer-forced-to-remove-armenian-friend-from-facebook-friends-list.html","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani Singer Forced to Remove Armenian Friend from Facebook Friends&#8217; List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of Aynishan Guliyeva (pictured, second from left, second row), Azerbaijan&#8217;s contestant in the <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.vitebsk.by\/en\/contest\/pop11\/c\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">20th International Performers Contest<\/span><\/strong><\/a> at the <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.festival.vitebsk.by\/en\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Slavianski Bazaar<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>alongside Armenia&#8217;s contestant Narek Makaryan (pictured, in purple tie) resulted in a wave of discontent by internet users.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aze.az, Guliyeva was forced to remove Makaryan from her list of Facebook friends. Guliyeva&#8217;s mother, Aybaniz Gashimova, who accompanied her daughter to the song contest in Vitebsk, tried to justify and explain how it came to be that her daughter was in a photo with an Armenian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Armenian boy expressed his love for Azerbaijan; the organizers were constantly putting him next to Aynishan. We are a peace-loving people; we couldn&#8217;t drive him away from us \u2014 the participants and guests of the festival saw everything. That Aynishan was photographed with an Armenian doesn&#8217;t mean we have forgotten our martyrs. No! Our family has experienced great sorrow, but we have shown peacefulness. We could not push him away or be rude and thus disgrace our country,&#8221; said Gashimova, reports Aze.az.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of Aynishan Guliyeva, Azerbaijan&#8217;s contestant in the 20th International Performers Contest at the Slavianski Bazaar&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30504,30506,30505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}