{"id":49073,"date":"2010-11-16T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/11\/16\/armenian-villages-in-turkey-may-return-to-their-historic-names\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:56:00","slug":"armenian-villages-in-turkey-may-return-to-their-historic-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/11\/16\/armenian-villages-in-turkey-may-return-to-their-historic-names.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Villages in Turkey May Return to their Historic Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The names of thousands of villages in Turkey predominantly home to Kurds, Greeks and Armenians will be restored to their original names, prior to the 1980 coup d&#8217;<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u00e9<\/span>tat, said Turkey&#8217;s Interior Minister Be<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u015f<\/span>ir Atalay during a live TV broadcast on Kanal 7 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">According to him, Turkey&#8217;s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government&nbsp; will give the green light if village residents want to restore the names of their places of residence, reports Today&#8217;s Zaman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">On a different but related topic, Atalay also said he believes different languages and dialects are a source of richness for Turkey, and citizens who cannot speak Turkish can use any of these instead.&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>The names of thousands of villages in&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[18728,18737,18736,18734,18730,18733,18731,18729,18735,18732],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073"}],"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=49073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}