{"id":260348,"date":"2014-11-27T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=260348"},"modified":"2014-11-27T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:25:20","slug":"bill-demanding-an-apology-for-armenian-genocide-presented-in-turkish-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/27\/bill-demanding-an-apology-for-armenian-genocide-presented-in-turkish-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Demanding an Apology for Armenian Genocide Presented in Turkish Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Kurdish Politician and Peoples&rsquo; Democratic Party (HDP) MP Sebahat Tuncel (pictured) has presented a bill that would recognize the Armenian Genocide and other Crimes against Humanity in Turkish Parliament.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe draft bill notes that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would need to officially apologize to Armenians, reported stargazete.com.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The MP&rsquo;s presented draft bill, states the Turkey&rsquo;s president must first apologize from the Parliamentary podium, while the next day he must&nbsp;read an official apology from one of sites of the crime. &ldquo;Then within the maximum of one year&#39;s time, a parliamentary commission must be created in order to open all Armenian Genocide related state archives,&rdquo; noted the draft law.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The site notes that if the law is accepted, then Turkey would accept the Armenian Genocide and consider April 24 as a &ldquo;national day of mourning.&rdquo; The Kurdish politician&rsquo;s draft law also raises the issue of the 1937-38 Dersim, 1978 Marash, 1993 Sivas, 1980 &Ccedil;orum Massacres, and the September 12, 1980 coup d&rsquo;etat to be called &ldquo;Crimes of Humanity by State Terror.&rdquo;<\/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>The site notes that if the law is accepted, then Turkey would accept the Armenian Genocide and consider April 24 as a \u201cnational day of mourning.\u201d The Kurdish politician&#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":260335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,58917,58918,20718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260348"}],"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=260348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}