{"id":10703,"date":"2009-03-31T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2009-03-31T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:06:48","slug":"six-armenians-elected-in-turkish-local-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/03\/31\/six-armenians-elected-in-turkish-local-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Armenians Elected in Turkish Local Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Azbarez .. Published:  Monday March 30, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL (Marmara)&#8211;During this weekend&#8217;s  municipal election in Turkey, six Armenians were elected to local and regional  bodies in and around Istanbul, including a seat in the Istanbul City Council,  making this one of the most unprecedented local elections in recent history for  Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Some 12 candidates of Armenian descent took part in the elections  representing both the ruling and opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>In the end,  Raffi-Hermon Araks, Hovhannes Garabedian, Yervant Ouzouzian, Harutiun  Edgunes,\u00a0Bedros Avedikian and\u00a0Vazken Baren\u00a0were elected to various local and  regional bodies, with the latter two garnering a seat in the Istanbul City  Council.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10704\" title=\"yerel-secim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/yerel-secim.gif\" alt=\"yerel-secim\" width=\"400\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azbarez .. Published: Monday March 30, 2009 ISTANBUL (Marmara)&#8211;During this weekend&#8217;s municipal election in Turkey, six Armenians were elected to local and regional bodies in and around Istanbul, including a seat in the Istanbul City Council, making this one of the most unprecedented local elections in recent history for Turkey. Some 12 candidates of Armenian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":10704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1033,1153],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-local-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}