{"id":54070,"date":"2011-01-13T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=54070"},"modified":"2011-01-13T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T08:11:11","slug":"turkish-german-politician-recognizes-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/13\/turkish-german-politician-recognizes-armenian-genocide.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish-German Politician Recognizes Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 11, 2011, a heated nomination campaign ensued to be listed as a candidate within the Left Party for Hamburg\u2018s State Assembly to be held on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the internal party squabble was the denial of the Armenian Genocide, pitting the State Assembly Member of Turkish origin Mehmet Yildiz against ethnic Armenian candidate Toros Sarian. Although State Assembly Member Yildiz in the end fended off his main challenger, Mr. Sarian was content, having brought up the Armenian Genocide issue to the forefront of the Left Party\u2019s attention, reports Massis Post (the online presence for Massis Weekly).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this campaign Mehmet Yildiz had been a denier of the Armenian Genocide. Yet during the contested campaign, on the issue of recognizing or denying the historical accuracy of the Armenian Genocide brought up by Sarian, Yildiz, to ensure his continued candidacy, acknowledged that \u201cTurkey committed genocide against the Armenians and should accept the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cClaims of the Armenian Genocide have been examined, vetted and have been agreed as conclusive and definitive by historians. Turkey should look at Germany and the massacres of Jews in the Second World War as an example by accepting its prior wrongdoing and pay compensation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toros Sarian is a historian and an active member of the German-Armenian community and regular contributor to Massis Weekly, the official publication of the Social Democratic Hunchukian Party of the Western Region of the US.<\/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>During a heated nomination campaign to be listed as a candidate for Germany&#8217;s Left Party&#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":54052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,10371,20241,20242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54070"}],"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=54070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}