{"id":63544,"date":"2019-04-12T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=63544"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:38:22","slug":"turkish-opposition-slams-french-move-on-events-of-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-opposition-slams-french-move-on-events-of-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish opposition slams French move on events of 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey\u2019s main opposition on Friday criticized France&#8217;s declaration of April 24 as a day commemorating the 1915 events between Turkey and Armenia.<\/h2>\n<p>Declaring April 24 a memorial day is not helpful or acceptable, said Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Solving the problems between Armenia and Turkey is possible through dialogue between them, not through the intervention of a third country crossing the line,&#8221; he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s position on the events of 1915 is that the deaths of Armenians in eastern Anatolia took place when some sided with invading Russians and revolted against Ottoman forces. A subsequent relocation of Armenians resulted in numerous casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey objects to the presentation of the incidents as &#8220;genocide&#8221; but describes the 1915 events as a tragedy in which both sides suffered casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara has repeatedly proposed the creation of a joint commission of historians from Turkey and Armenia plus international experts to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s main opposition on Friday criticized France&#8217;s declaration of April 24 as a day commemorating the 1915 events between Turkey and Armenia. Declaring April 24 a memorial day is not helpful or acceptable, said Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP). &#8220;Solving the problems between Armenia and Turkey is possible through dialogue between &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,188],"tags":[7856,960,8340,77182],"class_list":["post-63544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-turkey-politics","tag-chp","tag-france","tag-kemal-kilicdaroglu","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}