{"id":167121,"date":"2012-03-07T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=167121"},"modified":"2012-03-07T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:10:55","slug":"turkish-authorities-searching-for-protestors-with-anti-armenian-banners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/07\/turkish-authorities-searching-for-protestors-with-anti-armenian-banners.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Authorities Searching for Protestors with Anti-Armenian Banners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has said anti-Armenian banners unfurled during an \u0130stanbul rally held on Feb. 26 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre reflect the feeling of some \u201craving racists\u201d and not those of the Turkish people, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/news-273432-pm-anti-armenian-banners-during-khojaly-rally-work-of-raving-racists.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese banners do not reflect the feelings of Turkey but those of a few raving racists. \u2026 Necessary [legal] action has already been taken. But it is unjust to overshadow the rally marking the massacre by a few worthless banners. Nobody has the right to damage the image of Turkey based on these exceptional scenes,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n<p>A group of protesters held banners and chanted racist slogans against Armenians during the rally, which organizers said cast a shadow over the peaceful nature of the event. The slogans caused much outrage among the Turkish public.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released by the Turkish Interior Ministry on Wednesday said it is impossible to justify \u201csome slogans and banners\u201d during the rally, referring to the offensive banners. The statement added that legal proceedings have been launched to find these people and groups, adding that the \u0130stanbul Governor&#8217;s Office is working to identify these people.<\/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>Turkey&#8217;s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has said anti-Armenian banners unfurled during an \u0130stanbul rally held on Feb. 26 to mark&#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":167095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[39110,38487,16928,32991,10426,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167121"}],"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=167121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}