{"id":125189,"date":"2011-09-08T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=125189"},"modified":"2011-09-08T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:02:04","slug":"charles-aznavour-suggests-a-different-word-for-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/08\/charles-aznavour-suggests-a-different-word-for-genocide.html","title":{"rendered":"Charles Aznavour Suggests a Different Word for &#8216;Genocide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian lobby in France has stepped up pressure on French-Armenian musician Charles Aznavour for recent remarks in which he expressed uneasiness over the use of word Genocide for the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/news-256118-french-singer-aznavour-faces-armenian-pressure-after-genocide-remarks.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aznavour has become the target of harsh criticism from Armenian groups in France since he said during a television program on Sunday that \u201cthe word genocide disturbs him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA different word should be found to reopen the Turkish-Armenian border and to [facilitate] dialogue with Turks,\u201d the chansonnier said during a TV program titled \u201cVivement Dimanche\u201d and aired on France 2. He also expressed a wish to visit Turkey, referring to Turks as \u201cgood people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian community in France has been harshly criticizing Aznavour over the Internet, accusing him of betraying the Armenian cause.<\/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>The Armenian lobby in France has stepped up pressure on French-Armenian musician Charles Aznavour for recent remarks in&#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":125174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125189"}],"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=125189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}