{"id":152480,"date":"2012-01-10T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=152480"},"modified":"2012-01-10T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:45:18","slug":"people-in-armenia-dont-know-why-france-is-penalizing-genocide-denial-charges-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/10\/people-in-armenia-dont-know-why-france-is-penalizing-genocide-denial-charges-analyst.html","title":{"rendered":"People in Armenia Don&#8217;t Know Why France is Penalizing Genocide Denial, Charges Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Armenia incorrectly perceive the process initiated in France of criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide, linking it with activities of the Armenian lobby, said Yerevan-based <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-i.am\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Caucasus Institute<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> Director Alexander Iskandaryan, speaking to journalists in the Armenian capital on Jan. 10.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this is an &#8220;unaided game&#8221; by France, which wants to distant Ankara even more from European affairs. The analyst noted that France is not too happy about Turkey&#8217;s aspirations to increase its role in the Arab world since it is France that traditionally has its influence in that region.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Iskandaryan noted that penalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide has a humanitarian component.<\/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>People in Armenia incorrectly perceive the process initiated in France of criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide, linking it with activities&#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":152455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11785,10790,16861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152480"}],"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=152480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}