{"id":252485,"date":"2014-04-22T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=252485"},"modified":"2014-04-22T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T17:05:44","slug":"karabakh-war-veterans-were-not-allowed-to-go-to-historic-cilicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/04\/22\/karabakh-war-veterans-were-not-allowed-to-go-to-historic-cilicia.html","title":{"rendered":"Karabakh War Veterans Were Not Allowed to Go to &#8220;Historic Cilicia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">A group of 5 Karabakh War veterans on April 21 tried to go from Yerevan to Beirut, and from there to Latakia, where Armenians from Kessab, Syria, are being sheltered, to help them; however, the veterans were stopped by security officials at the airport, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preparliament.com\/azatamardiknerin-argelecin-meknel-qessab-2\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>reports the Pre-Parliament initiative<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM].<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe veterans were urged to go to Latakia by Vahan Badasyan, a parliamentary deputy of the de facto Republic Nagorno-Karabakh.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan had criticized the veterans&#39; willingness to go to Kessab. &quot;That will be the biggest step to endanger our country,&quot; he had said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;We weren&#39;t going to Aleppo; we weren&#39;t going to Damascus; we were going to part of historic Cilicia, where Armenians have lived for millennia,&quot; said war veteran Pavlik Manukyan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DGs-W9rawF0?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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 group of 5 Karabakh War veterans on April 21 tried to go from Yerevan to Beirut, and from there to Latakia, where Armenians from Kessab, Syria, are being sheltered&#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":252478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54352,54404,54982,23837],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252485"}],"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=252485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}