{"id":48397,"date":"2011-12-31T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=48397"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:04:49","slug":"istanbul-armenian-church-seeks-return-of-tuzla-orphanage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/12\/31\/istanbul-armenian-church-seeks-return-of-tuzla-orphanage\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Armenian Church Seeks Return of Tuzla Orphanage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48400\" title=\"8660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/8660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>According to a news report in today\u2019s Hurriyet, Pastor Krikor A\u011fabalo\u011flu of the Gedikpa\u015fa Armenian Protestant Church has filed a formal application with Turkey\u2019s Foundations General Directorate for the return of an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul\u2019s Tuzla district that had been expropriated in the wake of Turkey\u2019s 1980 military coup.<\/p>\n<p>Murdered journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink also received an education at the Tuzla orphanage and contributed to its construction with his brothers.<\/p>\n<p>No formal reasons were ever provided as to why the orphanage lands had been expropriated, A\u011fabalo\u011flu said. \u201cThe state wants us to prove the title deeds of properties it expropriated. The state already knows why and what it expropriated. All the documents and title deeds are in their possession,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>via Istanbul Armenian Church Seeks Return of Tuzla Orphanage | Hetq online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a news report in today\u2019s Hurriyet, Pastor Krikor A\u011fabalo\u011flu of the Gedikpa\u015fa Armenian Protestant Church has filed a formal application with Turkey\u2019s Foundations General Directorate for the return of an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul\u2019s Tuzla district that had been expropriated in the wake of Turkey\u2019s 1980 military coup. Murdered journalist and human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":48400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[6888],"class_list":["post-48397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-armenians-in-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48397","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=48397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}