{"id":16978,"date":"2010-02-18T05:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T05:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16978"},"modified":"2017-11-28T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:02:39","slug":"uk-parliament-have-recognized-the-1915-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/02\/18\/uk-parliament-have-recognized-the-1915-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Parliament have recognized the 1915 Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another falsified  claim by Armenians!<\/p>\n<p>ERMENILERIN DUNYAYA\u00a0 YAYDIGI BU HABER DOGRU DEGIL&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ANOTHER FALSE PROPOGANDA ITEM BY ARMENIAN DIASPORA<\/p>\n<p>Dear All,<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0 bending the truth,<\/p>\n<p>The current EDM has  only 111 signatures and to get a total of 254 MP&#8217;s they are including all the  EDM&#8217;S signed to date by various MP&#8217;s. They have also disguised this EDM by  calling it Holocaust Memorial Day and joining it with the actual Genocide of the  Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Another falsified  claim by Armenians!<\/p>\n<p>Best regards<\/p>\n<p>Servet Hassan<\/p>\n<p>Armenia Solidarity<br \/>\nNor Serount Cultural Association<\/p>\n<p>c\/o The Temple of  Peace, King Edward VIIII Ave., Cathays Park, Cardiff<br \/>\n07718982732<br \/>\neilian@talktalk.net<br \/>\nThe Majority of eligible Members  of the UK Parliament have recognized<br \/>\nthe 1915 Genocide<\/p>\n<p>This week the  number of MPs in the House of Commons who have signed<br \/>\nmotions (called Early  Day Motions) recognizing the 1915 Genocide of<br \/>\nArmenians and Assyrians has  passed 250 this week, representing the<br \/>\nmajority of all eligible MPs. Of the  646 MPs , only 495 of them are<br \/>\neligible to express their own views on these  motions, because the other<br \/>\n151 are part of the government or have other roles  which preclude their<br \/>\nsignatures.<br \/>\nThe number of MPs who have signed (254  exactly) did so by signing<br \/>\nmotions in 2007 and during this parliamentary year  (2009-2010), put by<br \/>\nDr. Bob Spink MP, an Independent MP, at our request. The  current Early<br \/>\nDay Motion (number 287) contains a clause which states::  &#8220;This<br \/>\nHouse&#8230;.condemns unreservedly denial and denigration of the memory  of<br \/>\nthe Holocaust, as well as of the 1915 Genocide of Armenians  and<br \/>\nAssyrians in Turkey, and the politics of hatred and division which  led<br \/>\nto these events&#8221; and also &#8220;&#8230;.. and calls on hon. Members to  respect<br \/>\nHolocaust Memorial Day and to ensure that the Holocaust, the  1915<br \/>\nGenocide and modern atrocities such as the 1988 Anfal Genocide are  never<br \/>\nforgotten&#8221;<br \/>\nThis UK-wide Recognition of Genocide follows the example  of Welsh<br \/>\nMPs in 2006, and 2007, and Scottish and Irish MPs a few weeks  ago.<br \/>\nOf the 349 Labour MPs (the party of Government), 225 are eligible<br \/>\nand  150 (two thirds ) have signed.<br \/>\nAlso, the majority of all non-Conservative MPs  have signed (222<br \/>\nLabour, Liberal Democrat, Irish, Welsh and Scottish  Nationalist and<br \/>\nIndependent MPs out of 442 total non-conservative voting MPs  in<br \/>\nnparliament ) . Most Conservative MPs do not sign such motions  without<br \/>\nthe permission of their Party, and therefore do not express their  own<br \/>\nopinions,<br \/>\nThe figure of 635 Voting MPs discounts the 5 Irish Sinn Fein  members,<br \/>\nwho never took up their seats, not recognizing the authority  of<br \/>\nparliament.<br \/>\nArmenia Solidarity Spokesman Eilian Williams said: &#8220;. The  UK, and<br \/>\nthe other countries of the European Union must now accept that  Turkey&#8217;s<br \/>\npresent borders are based on its succesful Genocide of its Armenian  and<br \/>\nAssyrian population. The issue of Armenian and Assyrian Churches  and<br \/>\nlands which were confiscated by the Turkish State in the 1923 &#8220;Law  of<br \/>\nAbandoned Properties&#8221; should be given a high priority, before  any<br \/>\nprogress is made on Turkey&#8217;s accession to the E.U.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another falsified claim by Armenians! ERMENILERIN DUNYAYA\u00a0 YAYDIGI BU HABER DOGRU DEGIL&#8230; ANOTHER FALSE PROPOGANDA ITEM BY ARMENIAN DIASPORA Dear All, This is\u00a0 bending the truth, The current EDM has only 111 signatures and to get a total of 254 MP&#8217;s they are including all the EDM&#8217;S signed to date by various MP&#8217;s. They have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-16978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-history-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978","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=16978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}