{"id":266,"date":"2012-04-17T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T09:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=266"},"modified":"2012-04-20T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:30:54","slug":"two-more-italian-cities-recognize-the-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Two More Italian Cities Recognize The Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Rieti-Turina-Vanoyan2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-284 alignleft\" title=\"Rieti City Council Chairman Gianni Turina and Armenian Cause advocate Metaksya Vanoyan\" src=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Rieti-Turina-Vanoyan2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Rieti-Turina-Vanoyan2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Rieti-Turina-Vanoyan2-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On March 20 and April 17 respectively, the City Councils of <a title=\"Rieti City Council Resolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ilgiornaledirieti.it\/public\/files\/genocidio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Rieti<\/a> and Scafati, Italy, have proceeded in the recognition and condemnation of the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians, perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey.\u00a0 Once more, the Italian local authorities urge Turkey to reconcile with its history and admit the crimes that she masterminded and executed in the past. Massacres and atrocities against the Armenians starting from 1895, are highlighted in the adopted resolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Scafati-mostra-armeni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-270 alignright\" title=\"Armenian Artists' Exhibition in Scafati\" src=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Scafati-mostra-armeni-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Scafati-mostra-armeni-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Scafati-mostra-armeni-414x600.jpg 414w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Scafati-mostra-armeni.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As in Turin City Council&#8217;s case, Rieti&#8217;s <a title=\"Rieti City Council Resolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ilgiornaledirieti.it\/public\/files\/genocidio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">resolution<\/a> also commits to express full solidarity with the Armenian people in its  struggle for recognition of the historical truth and the defense of the  inviolable rights, to intervene with the appropriate bodies in order to  preserve the Christian-Armenian artistic, historical and religious  heritage which is in a serious state of degradation, to invite the  European Parliament to take action so that Turkey, a candidate to be  part of \u2018the European Union, formally recognizes and condemns the  genocide of Armenians and to support any useful initiative to promote  reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both City Councils passed the resolutions, unanimously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To read the italian text of the Rieti City Council Resolution, follow the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Rieti City Council Resolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ilgiornaledirieti.it\/public\/files\/genocidio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ilgiornaledirieti.it\/public\/files\/genocidio.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20 and April 17 respectively, the City Councils of Rieti and Scafati, Italy, have proceeded in the recognition and condemnation of the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians, perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey.\u00a0 Once more, the Italian local authorities urge Turkey to reconcile with its history and admit the crimes that she masterminded and executed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}