{"id":143948,"date":"2011-11-24T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T08:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=143948"},"modified":"2011-11-24T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T08:32:53","slug":"turkey-pm-officially-apologizes-for-dersim-killings-armenian-genocide-still-taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/24\/turkey-pm-officially-apologizes-for-dersim-killings-armenian-genocide-still-taboo.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey PM Officially Apologizes for Dersim Killings. Armenian Genocide Still Taboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan apologized Tuesday \u201con the state\u2019s behalf\u201d for the Dersim killings in the late 1930s, marking the first time a representative of the Turkish Republic had ever apologized for the attacks, reports the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=first-official-apology-for-killings-in-dersim-2011-11-23\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP), which ruled Turkey under a single-party regime at the time, was responsible for the military operation in the rebellious Alevi-populated region, the present-day province of Tunceli, and must apologize. \u201cIf an apology is required on behalf of the state and if such precedents exist, I am apologizing,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said at a meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP).<\/p>\n<p>However, he said, \u201cIf someone is to apologize for and face up to this tragedy, it is not the AKP and the AKP government but the CHP, the author of this bloody episode, as well as the CHP deputies and the CHP chairperson who hails from Tunceli.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CHP leader withheld any immediate reaction, but his aides promptly issued condemnations.<\/p>\n<p>Do\u011fu Ergil, a political scientist, told the H\u00fcrriyet that the apology was remarkable and that the prime minister should not stop at one apology. \u201cI wonder if Erdo\u011fan would have done the same thing if the perpetrators had been close to his political views,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the debate should not be limited to Dersim killings. Turkey should apologize for the 1915 Armenian killings and the Sept. 6-7, 1955, events, which resulted in the mass exodus of minorities from the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan slammed CHP leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu for likening his stance on the Dersim killings to the Armenian diaspora\u2019s genocide campaign, saying he would \u201cput in his place\u201d anyone who would make such a comparison.<\/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>&#8220;The debate should not be limited to Dersim killings. Turkey should apologize for the 1915 Armenian killings and the Sept. 6-7, 1955&#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":85458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,21346,35011,10427,10426,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143948"}],"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=143948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}