{"id":32841,"date":"2011-04-27T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=32841"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:23:17","slug":"the-killing-of-armenian-soldier-caused-great-pain-to-the-armenian-community-of-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/04\/27\/the-killing-of-armenian-soldier-caused-great-pain-to-the-armenian-community-of-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"The killing of Armenian soldier caused great pain to the Armenian community of Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Balyan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadiolur\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32843\" title=\"260411zinvor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/260411zinvor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"180\" \/>An Armenian soldier was killed in the Turkish army on April 24, the day of commemoration of the Armenian Genocide victims. The official version differs from that of the Armenian community. Sevak Shahin Balikcin, 25, was called up for military service after he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Y\u0131ld\u0131z Technical University of Istanbul. His body was conveyed to his partents as \u201csehit,\u201d which means \u201cmartyr.\u201d However, his parents do not agree with this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad he fallen in the war, he would be a sehit. However, the reality is different. We demand that corresponding bodies probe into the case,\u201d his father says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son had a lot of dreams. He was interested in fine arts,\u201d says Sevak\u2019s mother, holding her son\u2019s photo.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian population of Istanbul was shocked by the fact.<\/p>\n<p>Editor of \u201cZhamanak&#8221; daily Ara Gochunyan notes that the accident caused great pain to the Armenian community. \u201cThe funeral will take place tomorrow, the Patriarchate has already done the necessary arrangements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Accidental murder as a result of joking with the friend: this is the official version. A controversial report has been issued on Sevak\u2019s death. \u201cHe was killed as a result of gunshot, when joking with his friend. There are no witnesses,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n<p>According to the version of the Armenian community, the soldier was killed because of discussing the issue of the Armenian Genocide with his fellows.<\/p>\n<p>Ara Gochunyan notes that investigation is still under way. Sevak Shahin Balikcin would be demobilized in 23 days.<\/p>\n<p>via The killing of Armenian soldier caused great pain to the Armenian community of Istanbul : Public Radio of Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Balyan \u201cRadiolur\u201d An Armenian soldier was killed in the Turkish army on April 24, the day of commemoration of the Armenian Genocide victims. The official version differs from that of the Armenian community. Sevak Shahin Balikcin, 25, was called up for military service after he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Y\u0131ld\u0131z Technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":32843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4247,5385],"class_list":["post-32841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-armenian-community","tag-sevak-shahin-balikcin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32841","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=32841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}