{"id":246970,"date":"2014-01-17T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T07:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=246970"},"modified":"2014-01-17T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T07:44:17","slug":"why-are-the-yezidis-rapidly-emigrating-from-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/01\/17\/why-are-the-yezidis-rapidly-emigrating-from-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Why are the Yezidis Rapidly Emigrating from Armenia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Yazidis living in Armenia are emigrating rapidly. If in the past they left the country because of a lack of jobs and poor socioeconomic conditions, added to these problems now is the high utility bills, reports local daily Zhoghovurd in today&#39;s issue.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tChair of the Union of Yezidis of Armenia Aziz Tamoyan, in conversation with the paper, said that the Yezidi people don&#39;t have work, so they are unable to feed their families.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Not only the Yezidis, but also Armenians live in poor social conditions. The number of Yazidis living in Armenia today has been reduced by half. They&#39;re leaving. The recent rise in the price of electricity and gas also contributed to this. People can&#39;t survive. Earn a little bit of money to what? [Choose between] buying food for their livestock or paying the utility bills?&quot; he said.&nbsp;<\/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>Yazidis living in Armenia are emigrating rapidly. If in the past they left the country because of a lack of jobs and poor socioeconomic&#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":246946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52622,21816,21817,18854,18853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246970"}],"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=246970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}