{"id":86662,"date":"2011-04-18T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T09:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=86662"},"modified":"2011-04-18T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T09:56:43","slug":"turkey-needs-truth-commission-to-address-armenian-kurdish-issues-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/18\/turkey-needs-truth-commission-to-address-armenian-kurdish-issues-expert.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Needs Truth Commission to Address Armenian, Kurdish Issues: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former director\u00a0from the Peruvian Truth Commission has called for the Turkish government to set up a similar body to clarify past events in order to help resolve the Kurdish and Armenian questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some pending issues in Turkish history,\u201d Katya Salazar, who served until 2004 as deputy director of the Special Investigations Unit of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=turkey-needs-truth-commission-says-former-peruvian-commission-director-2011-04-17\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>H\u00fcrriyet Daily News &amp; Economic Review<\/strong><\/span><\/a> while visiting Ankara to speak at a conference Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know the details of Turkish history but from what I have learned during the last few days, I think there is a need to clarify some facts of the past to promote accountability for state authorities\u2019 actions in the past,\u201d Salazar said, adding that the Kurdish and Armenian issues could be topics of investigation for such a commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkish people should think about the pros and cons of having such a commission,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A Truth Commission is usually defined as an official body tasked with discovering and revealing human-rights violations, including unsolved killings, caused in the past by the government, dictatorial regimes or non-state actors, including the military.<\/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>A former director from the Peruvian Truth Commission has called for the Turkish government to set up a similar body to clarify past events in&#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":86637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25028,25027,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86662"}],"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=86662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}