{"id":60511,"date":"2011-01-31T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T07:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=60511"},"modified":"2011-01-31T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T07:02:25","slug":"armenian-schools-in-turkey-now-admitting-muslim-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/31\/armenian-schools-in-turkey-now-admitting-muslim-students.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Schools in Turkey Now Admitting Muslim Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian schools in Turkey are set to begin admitting students according to a new policy in light of the increasing number of children born to couples of mixed Turkish-Armenian and non-Armenian descent, reports the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News &amp; Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>A number of children born to intercultural couples are already attending a variety of the 18 Armenian schools in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, for a child to be allowed to register at an Armenian school both parents had to be members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, however the Education Ministry recently issued a notice stating that only one of the parents had to be a church member.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Karekin Barsamyan of the Private Pangalt\u0131 (M\u0131hitaryan) Armenian High School told the H\u00fcrriyet recently that a number of the school\u2019s students were registered as Muslim on their identity cards, while some were registered as Syriac and others were registered as having Turkish-Greek parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of what their identity cards say, these kids are receiving an Armenian-Christian education and they will decide upon their identities themselves in the future,\u201d Barsamyan said.<\/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>Armenian schools in Turkey are set to begin admitting students according to a new policy in light of the increasing number of children born to&#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":60499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13254,20862,20865,20863,20864,10375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60511"}],"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=60511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}