{"id":59211,"date":"2011-01-27T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T06:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=59211"},"modified":"2011-01-27T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T06:59:33","slug":"let-the-guns-fall-silent-turkeys-conscientious-objectors-speak-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/27\/let-the-guns-fall-silent-turkeys-conscientious-objectors-speak-up.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Let the Guns Fall Silent&#8217;: Turkey&#8217;s Conscientious Objectors Speak Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of those who are unwilling to serve in the army in Turkey increases day by day, reports Istanbul-based bilingual (Armenian-Turkish) weekly Agos.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, conscientious objectors and others have been staging demonstrations in Turkey&#8217;s largest city. On Jan. 23,\u00a0 about 300 people marched toward one of the military unites in Istanbul; however, police stopped protestors halfway along their route. Marchers then gathered near the state radio headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators then read their statement opposing the army and chanted, &#8220;We have no reason to enlist, we have many to refuse&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t enlist, don&#8217;t kill your brother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the protest was Member of Turkey&#8217;s Parliament Sebahat Tuncel, Kurdish by ethnicity and vice chair of the Democratic Society Party (DTP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want neither the death of Turkish nor Kurdish youth. Let the guns fall silent,&#8221; said Tuncel.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Turkey&#8217;s armed forces occasionally engages in military action against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), which sometimes results in casualties. The PKK is deemed a terrorist group by Turkey and many other states.<\/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 number of those who are unwilling to serve in the army in Turkey increases day by day, reports Istanbul-based bilingual weekly Agos.<!-- 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":59177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20717,20718,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59211"}],"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=59211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}