{"id":159543,"date":"2012-02-07T14:49:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=159543"},"modified":"2012-02-07T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:50:25","slug":"if-need-be-ill-go-back-to-davos-and-say-it-again-ba%c4%9f%c4%b1%c5%9f-on-denying-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/07\/if-need-be-ill-go-back-to-davos-and-say-it-again-ba%c4%9f%c4%b1%c5%9f-on-denying-armenian-genocide.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;If Need Be, I&#8217;ll Go Back to Davos and Say It Again: Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f on Denying Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish EU Minister Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f has declared a Swiss probe into his denial of the Armenian Genocide to be &#8220;null and void&#8221; for him, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/no-power-can-arrest-a-turkish-minister-says-bagis-.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=13179&amp;NewsCatID=338\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">the H\u00fcrriyet<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reported today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know of no power that could arrest a Turkish minister,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said. &#8220;If need be, I&#8217;ll go back to Davos and say it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f had previously refused to comment on the matter but, nevertheless, answered reporters\u2019 questions at the airport ahead of a scheduled visit to Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously this is at the initial probe stage right now. There isn&#8217;t any official documentation on it that has reached me yet. We have fought for the freedom of speech, we are fighting for it, and we will fight for it,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hear they&#8217;re trying to confirm whether or not I said those words,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said. &#8220;Let them waste no time. I said it, and I repeat it today. I will repeat it again when I&#8217;m asked in future visits to Switzerland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zurich\u2019s public prosecutor launched a preliminary inquiry into Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f after he said \u201cthere is no Armenian Genocide. Let them arrest me,\u201d following a French reporter\u2019s question last week in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned Bern\u2019s ambassador to Turkey yesterday in response to the probe.<\/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;I hear they&#8217;re trying to confirm whether or not I said those words,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said. &#8220;Let them waste no time. I said it, and I repeat it today. I will repeat it again when&#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":159521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,13334,16861,24085,17065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159543"}],"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=159543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}