{"id":62232,"date":"2011-02-03T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=62232"},"modified":"2011-02-03T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T12:07:17","slug":"ugly-monument-cannot-bring-armenia-turkey-peoples-closer-turkologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/03\/ugly-monument-cannot-bring-armenia-turkey-peoples-closer-turkologist.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ugly&#8217; Monument Cannot Bring Armenia, Turkey Peoples Closer: Turkologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkologist Hakob Chakryan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today, called the Monument of Humanity &#8220;disgracefully ugly.&#8221; A journalist had asked him about the monument in Kars which is said to symbolize friendship between Turkey and Armenia, to which Chakryan responded that such a monument could not bring the peoples of Armenia and Turkey closer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Turkologist, the two nations will be closer only when Turkey recognizes the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Chakryan recalled that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted to dismantle the monument, which is a political and not a cultural problem, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Erdogan spewed one thing out of his mouth, saying, this monument is taller than the minarets of the mosques in the area,&#8221; said Chakryan, adding the monument was built near an Armenian district&#8217;s cemetery and this fact can subsequently become a\u00a0 subject of speculation. &#8220;Since there will be elections in Turkey in a few months, Edrogan doesn&#8217;t want to disappoint voters.&#8221;<\/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>Turkologist Hakob Chakryan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today, called the Monument of Humanity &#8220;disgracefully ugly.&#8221;<!-- 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":62176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17501,10893,20270,13819,21117,17502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62232"}],"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=62232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}