{"id":81358,"date":"2011-04-01T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=81358"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:16:19","slug":"erdogan-echoes-davutoglus-remarks-on-turkish-armenian-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/01\/erdogan-echoes-davutoglus-remarks-on-turkish-armenian-economist.html","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan Echoes Davuto\u011flu&#8217;s Remarks on Turkish-Armenian Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t look at my citizens\u2019 ethnic background,\u201d read the headline of Istanbul-based daily Star\u2019s front-page article yesterday, quoting remarks from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, who commented on Turkey\u2019s offer to Turkish-Armenian academic Daron Acemo\u011flu to become its representative at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a very qualified colleague. He said he would be pleased to take up the offer in the future but that right now he is focusing on his academic goals. We believe he will represent our country in the best of ways. When we take such actions, we do not look at the ethnic background of our citizens,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davuto\u011flu had said, \u201cIt\u2019s impossible for us to subject citizens of the Republic of Turkey to discrimination on an ethical and religious basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Competency of the Turkish citizen is the essential criteria for us in this sense.\u201d<\/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>\u201cI don\u2019t look at my citizens\u2019 ethnic background,\u201d said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan yesterday, commenting on Turkey&#8217;s&#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":53938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14267,19318,12797,10427,10426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81358"}],"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=81358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}