{"id":262320,"date":"2015-02-06T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=262320"},"modified":"2015-02-06T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:48:18","slug":"262320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/02\/06\/262320.html","title":{"rendered":"NGOs in Turkey Ask World Leaders to go to Yerevan, not Gallipoli, on April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">5 NGOs have urged world leaders &ldquo;not to accept President Recep Tayyip Erdogan&rsquo;s invitation to Gallipoli on the 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide but to visit Yerevan instead&rdquo; reported Bianet.org.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPreviously, Turkish President Erdogan had announced that the defense of Gallipoli (Canakkale) would commemorated on April 24, a ceremony usually observed on March 18. Erdogan has invited over a 100 world leaders to the ceremony taking place in Canakkale, as well as Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan who swiftly denied the invitation due to the dishonorable decision of the date.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 5 associations: the Human Rights Association (IHD)&rsquo;s Commission Against Racism and Discrimination, Izmir Assyrian Friendship, Culture and Solidarity Association, Nor Zartonk, &nbsp;www.suryaniler.com Culture Platform, and Zan Social, Political, Economic Research Foundation, made a statement protesting Erdo\u011fan&rsquo;s invitation at IHD Headquarters in Istanbul.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;April 24 worldwide symbolizes the beginning of Armenian Genocide,&rdquo; IHD Vice Chairperson Meral C\u0131ld\u0131r said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;As the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide draws near, we, groups and peoples that struggle against the denial of the Genocide, protest the president&rsquo;s invitation and urge world leaders to visit the genocide memorial in Yerevan, instead of Gallipoli in Canakkale.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFollowing the press conference, IHD Vice Chairperson Eren Keskin stated that:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The mentality that founded the Republic of Turkey is the very mentality that committed the Armenian &#8211; Assyrian Genocide in 1915.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;For us, 24 April 2015 has a huge importance. We want to face our history. We want this understanding to be questioned. We were told lies and raised our children with those lies; we want to question this. We know that the Genocide in 1915 is still not openly mentioned by many countries but we we are asking a bit of conscience.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;[This] invitation is mocking with victims of Armenian Genocide. Go to Yerevan where the real pain is.&rdquo;&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>\u201cFor us, 24 April 2015 has a huge importance. We want to face our history. We want this understanding to be questioned. We were told lies and raised our children with those lies; we want to question this&#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":262313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17501,10372,10427,10371,10426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262320"}],"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=262320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}