{"id":592,"date":"2015-01-30T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=592"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:02:10","slug":"spains-burjassot-city-recognizes-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Burjassot city recognizes Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(<a title=\"Spain\u2019s Burjassot city recognizes Armenian Genocide\" href=\"http:\/\/horizonweekly.ca\/news\/details\/60769\" target=\"_blank\">horizonweekly.ca<\/a>) The municipal council of Burjassot city of Spain has approved a motion recognizing the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motion was presented by Compromis party, the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spain-Burjassot-Ayunatmiento.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-593\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spain-Burjassot-Ayunatmiento-600x326.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spain-Burjassot-Ayunatmiento-600x326.jpg 600w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spain-Burjassot-Ayunatmiento-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spain-Burjassot-Ayunatmiento.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a>The motion said that this year marks the centenary of the Armenian Genocide &#8211; the first genocide of the 20th century. \u201cIn 1915-1921 massacres and deportations of Armenians occurred in the territory of present-day Turkey, in particular under the rule of Young Turks, as a result of which 1.5 million Armenians died and about 2 million were forced to leave their homes, creating a large Armenian Diaspora\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tal y como se\u00f1ala <a title=\"Spain Burjassot Ayutamiento motion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.burjassot.org\/noticias\/municipal-es\/el-pleno-del-ayuntamiento-de-burjassot-acuerda-el-reconocimiento-oficial-del-genocidio-armenio\/\" target=\"_blank\">la moci\u00f3n<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201ceste a\u00f1o se cumplen 100 a\u00f1os del genocidio armenio, considerado como el primer genocidio del siglo XX. Entre los a\u00f1os 1915 y 1921 tuvieron lugar un conjunto de masacres y deportaciones de la poblaci\u00f3n armenia del actual territorio de Turqu\u00eda, especialmente durante el r\u00e9gimen de los J\u00f3venes Turcos, en el que murieron un mill\u00f3n y medio de armenios y otros dos millones tuvieron que abandonar sus casas\u201d<\/em>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(horizonweekly.ca) The municipal council of Burjassot city of Spain has approved a motion recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The motion was presented by Compromis party, the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry reports. The motion said that this year marks the centenary of the Armenian Genocide &#8211; the first genocide of the 20th century. \u201cIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spain-Burjassot-Ayunatmiento.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}