{"id":44863,"date":"2011-10-08T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=44863"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:34:28","slug":"france-urges-turkey-to-recognize-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/08\/france-urges-turkey-to-recognize-armenian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"France Urges Turkey to Recognize Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) \u2014 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44865\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44865 \" title=\"Armenia France_Hera\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Armenia-France_Hera.jpg\" alt=\"AP Photo\/PanARMENIAN, Tigran MehrabyanFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Armenian President Serge Sarkisian applaud at the French Square, in Yerevan, Armenia, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. Sarkozy has urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. Sarkozy said Friday during a news conference in the Armenian capital that Turkey's refusal to do so would force France to change its law and make such denial a criminal offense.YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) \u2014 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.Sarkozy told Friday's news conference in the Armenian capital \" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Armenia-France_Hera.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Armenia-France_Hera-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo\/PanARMENIAN, Tigran MehrabyanFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Armenian President Serge Sarkisian applaud at the French Square, in Yerevan, Armenia, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. Sarkozy has urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. Sarkozy said Friday during a news conference in the Armenian capital that Turkey&#39;s refusal to do so would force France to change its law and make such denial a criminal offense.YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) \u2014 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.Sarkozy told Friday&#39;s news conference in the Armenian capital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sarkozy told Friday&#8217;s news conference in the Armenian capital that Turkey&#8217;s refusal to do so would force France to change its law and make such denial a criminal offense.<\/p>\n<p>via France Urges Turkey to Recognize Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>www.thenationalherald.com\/article\/52150<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) \u2014 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. Sarkozy told Friday&#8217;s news conference in the Armenian capital that Turkey&#8217;s refusal to do so would force France to change its law and make such denial a criminal offense. via France Urges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":44865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,48],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-44863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-armenian-question","category-france","tag-sarkozy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44863","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=44863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}