{"id":16983,"date":"2010-02-18T06:21:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16983"},"modified":"2014-01-05T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:51:30","slug":"canadian-recognizes-1915-events-as-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/02\/18\/canadian-recognizes-1915-events-as-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian recognizes 1915 events as \u201cgenocide\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/>\nVice Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Nevzat Pakdil stated that  decision of Canadian House of Commons that recognizes 1915 events as \u201cgenocide\u201d  has saddened Turkish people.<br \/>\nHosting Head of Canada-Turkey  Interparliamentary Friendship Group Maurice Vellacott and the Canadian  delegation with him, Vice Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Nevzat  Pakdil said that Turkey and Canada are two allied countries. Stressing that two  countries do not have serious problems in their bilateral relations, Pakdil  said, \u201cBut the decision of Canadian House of Commons disappointed Turkish  people. Turkey did not commit such crime. We think that the decision was made  due to lack of information. We will be pleased to see Canada to support the  process of normalization of relations between Turkey and  Armenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling Canadian politicians to leave the issue to historians,  Pakdil said, \u201cTurkey is towards leaving the issue to historians. We announced  that we are ready to share all the documents and archives related to this issue.  We hope that our Canadian friends will behave in accordance with the historical  truths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCANADA SUPPORTS NORMALIZATION PROCESS\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to  Pakdil, Head of Canada-Turkey Interparliamentary Friendship Group Maurice  Vellacott said that Canada supports the process of normalization of relations  between Turkey and Armenia. Stressing that the genocide issue should be handled  within the frames of the history science, Vellacott said that Canada is pleased  with development of relations between Turkey and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table id=\"table1\" style=\"height: 40px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">www.avim.org.tr<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Nevzat Pakdil stated that decision of Canadian House of Commons that recognizes 1915 events as \u201cgenocide\u201d has saddened Turkish people. Hosting Head of Canada-Turkey Interparliamentary Friendship Group Maurice Vellacott and the Canadian delegation with him, Vice Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Nevzat Pakdil said that Turkey and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":775211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983","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=16983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}