{"id":149709,"date":"2011-12-20T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T06:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=149709"},"modified":"2011-12-20T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T06:46:39","slug":"massacres-of-armenians-raised-in-turkeys-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/20\/massacres-of-armenians-raised-in-turkeys-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Massacres of Armenians Raised in Turkey&#8217;s Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement made by pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) MP Sirri Sak\u0131k caused a heated debate in Turkey&#8217;s Grand National Assembly yesterday. As reported by the Epress.am correspondent in Istanbul, during discussion of the draft budget, the MP elected from Mu\u015f declared that in Turkey&#8217;s history, Dec. 19 has been &#8220;a witness to massacres&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The MP recalled the massacres of Kurds in Kahramanmara\u015f in 1978 when government representatives killed hundreds of civilians. Then he mentioned the massacre in 1915 against Armenians, followed by massacres against the Jews, then Kurds. In his remarks, the pro-Kurdish MP noted that Turkey has a culture of instigating massacres.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy chair of the Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP), and MPs with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) strongly reacted to Sak\u0131k&#8217;s statement, exhorting him not to say such things.<\/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>A statement made by pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) MP Sirri Sak\u0131k caused a heated debate in Turkey&#8217;s Grand&#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":144605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,25480,16481,25478,36058,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149709"}],"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=149709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}