{"id":81361,"date":"2011-04-01T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=81361"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:23:01","slug":"armenians-to-be-on-ak-party-list-of-turkey-mp-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/01\/armenians-to-be-on-ak-party-list-of-turkey-mp-candidates.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenians to be on AK Party List of Turkey MP Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) higher-ups have decided to accept 1,650 applications from a total of 5,599 candidate hopefuls who wish to be nominated as parliamentary candidates in the June 12 general elections, reports Istanbul-based daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/news-239796-ak-party-to-pick-candidate-hopefuls-as-mps-to-represent-all-of-turkey.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,650 candidates will be picked based primarily on the results of surveys carried out in the candidates\u2019 respective hometowns. The results will determine whether the hopefuls are nominated as deputy candidates in the approaching elections.<\/p>\n<p>The AK Party\u2019s candidate list is claimed to reflect an increase in the number of female candidates. The ruling party plans to have at least 60 female candidates elected to Parliament from its ranks. If it manages this, the AK Party will become the first political party in the history of Turkey to have so many female deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Melkon Karak\u00f6se and Herman Balyan, both of Armenian descent, are expected to be on the AK Party\u2019s list of parliamentary candidates. Karak\u00f6se has been a member of the AK Party for two years now. He is believed to be close to the party because of its support for the Law on Foundations, which enables foundations run by non-Muslim communities to own property and receive financial assistance from the state.<\/p>\n<p>The AK Party is also reportedly in close contact with Bedros \u015eirino\u011flu, head of the Surp P\u0131rgi\u00e7 Armenian Hospital Foundation, to nominate him for the parliamentary elections. It is not yet clear whether he will be nominated or not.<\/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>Melkon Karak\u00f6se and Herman Balyan, both of Armenian descent, are expected to be on the AK Party\u2019s list of parliamentary candidates. <!-- 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":81296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12894,24163,22330,24162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81361"}],"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=81361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}