{"id":881,"date":"2015-12-09T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=881"},"modified":"2015-12-18T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:21:52","slug":"peoples-democratic-congress-of-turkey-urges-armenian-genocide-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Peoples\u2019 Democratic Congress of Turkey urges Armenian Genocide recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/armeniangenocide100.org\/en\/peoples-democratic-congress-of-turkey-calls-on-authorities-to-recognize-armenian-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\">armeniangenocide100.org<\/a>) Peoples\u2019 Democratic Congress of Turkey (HDK) issued Wednesday, December 9, a statement addressed to the Turkish state on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, Armenpress reports citing Demokrathaber.net.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HDK-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-882\" src=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HDK-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HDK-logo.jpg 570w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HDK-logo-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Signed by HDK Co-spokespersons Sebahat Tuncel and Ertu\u011frul K\u00fcrk\u00e7\u00fc, the statement calls on Turkey to face its own history and apologize for perpetrating the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe genocide of Armenians and Assyrians committed in 1915 under the command of \u0130ttihat ve Terakki (Committee of Union and Progress) aimed to eliminate the ethnic and religious identities of Ottoman Armenians,\u201d the HDK statement reads to further stress that the Genocide started with the arrest and deportation of Istanbul\u2019s Armenian intellectuals on April 24, 1915.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter 100 years, Turkey continues to deny the Genocide,\u201d the statement says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The authors noted that what happened to Armenians was followed by more acts of genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeoples\u2019 Democratic Congress reminds that Turkey is among the states that have signed the international convention on prevention of genocides. We call on Turkey to stop denying the Armenian and Assyrian genocides and apologize for crimes committed against the Ottoman nations,\u201d the statement concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(armeniangenocide100.org) Peoples\u2019 Democratic Congress of Turkey (HDK) issued Wednesday, December 9, a statement addressed to the Turkish state on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, Armenpress reports citing Demokrathaber.net. Signed by HDK Co-spokespersons Sebahat Tuncel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}