{"id":260251,"date":"2014-11-26T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=260251"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:07:27","slug":"sinjar-yezidi-national-union-consider-parliament%e2%80%99s-behavior-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/26\/sinjar-yezidi-national-union-consider-parliament%e2%80%99s-behavior-unacceptable.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinjar Yezidi National Union Consider Parliament\u2019s Behavior Unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Sinjar Yezidi National Union views the decision by the National Assembly&rsquo;s Foreign Relations Committee last week to reject Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan&rsquo;s bill on the non-Armenian genocides as unacceptable. The draft bill called for December 9 as the day of condemning the Ottoman Empire&rsquo;s genocide of Yezidis, Assyrians, Greeks, and other religious minorities.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&ldquo;We are nearing the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and we are not attempting to condemn the crimes of the Ottoman Empire,&rdquo; notes the Sinjar Union&rsquo;s statement.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Sinjar&rsquo;s representatives also consider it unacceptable that Republican Party MP Samvel Farmanyan raised a question during the committee hearings about if the bill would be beneficial for Armenia. &ldquo;This all testifies to one thing, that we do not respect the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, while also trying to find a political interest in the genocides of other people,&rdquo; concluded the Union&rsquo;s statement.<\/span><\/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>\u201cWe are nearing the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and we are not attempting to condemn the crimes of the Ottoman Empire,\u201d notes the Sinjar Union\u2019s statement&#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":250916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39541,10371,58843,18509,39113,58842,18853,17082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260251"}],"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=260251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}