{"id":87427,"date":"2011-04-20T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T06:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=87427"},"modified":"2011-04-20T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T06:34:15","slug":"this-pain-is-ours-turkey-commemorates-armenian-genocide-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/20\/this-pain-is-ours-turkey-commemorates-armenian-genocide-victims.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This Pain is Ours&#8217;: Turkey Commemorates Armenian Genocide Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, events will be held through Turkey to commemorate Armenians who lost their lives in 1915, during the final days of the Ottoman Empire, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/todayszaman.com\/news-241521-1915-tragedy-to-be-commemorated-for-second-time-in-turkey.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s commemoration ceremonies will be held in \u0130stanbul\u2019s Taksim Square, Ankara, \u0130zmir, Diyarbak\u0131r and Bodrum. Victims of the displacement will be remembered in silence with carnations and candles. During the ceremonies the duduk, an Armenian musical instrument, will be played during a reading of the names of victims.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremonies are being organized by the Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism! (Dur De!) initiative. Spokesperson Cengiz Algan said what took place in 1915 is \u201ca hurt we all share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to confront the realities that have been hidden by the official ideology for 100 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A statement with the headline, \u201cThis pain is ours,\u201d has been opened up for signatures. More than 100 people including intellectuals, writers and journalists such as Ahmet \u0130nsel, Ali Bayramo\u011flu, Alper G\u00f6rm\u00fc\u015f, Bekir Berat \u00d6zipek, Cafer Solgun, Ferhat Kentel, G\u00fclten Kaya, Leyla \u0130pek\u00e7i, Mehmet Bekaro\u011flu, Oral \u00c7al\u0131\u015flar, Orhan Miro\u011flu, Oya Baydar, \u015eebnem Korur Fincanc\u0131 and \u00dcmit Karda\u015f have already signed the statement. Deputies from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and independent candidates supported by the party will be supporting the commemoration ceremony to be held in Diyarbak\u0131r.<\/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>For the second year in a row, events will be held through Turkey to commemorate Armenians who lost their lives in 1915&#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":87395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87427"}],"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=87427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}