{"id":49823,"date":"2012-01-17T03:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T01:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=49823"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:11:58","slug":"turkeys-arguments-against-genocide-bill-untenable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/17\/turkeys-arguments-against-genocide-bill-untenable\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s arguments against Genocide bill untenable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YEREVAN.- Turkey\u2019s arguments against adoption of a Genocide bill by the French Senate are untenable, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian told journalists on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49826\" title=\"89289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/89289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/89289.jpg 312w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/89289-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arguments presented by the Turkish side are weak, to put it mildly,\u201d he said. According to him, the Turkish side states adoption of the bill can hamper normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations. However, the major obstacle is Turkey\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Turkey\u2019s arguments on economic interests and interconnection between the bill and Ankara\u2019s possible role in the region are hints at corruption, not only blackmail.<\/p>\n<p>French parliament adopted on December 22 a bill criminalizing genocide denials, including the Armenian Genocide. The bill will be debated by French Senate on January 23.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey\u2019s arguments against Genocide bill untenable \u2013 Armenian FM | Armenia News &#8211; NEWS.am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YEREVAN.- Turkey\u2019s arguments against adoption of a Genocide bill by the French Senate are untenable, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian told journalists on Monday. \u201cThe arguments presented by the Turkish side are weak, to put it mildly,\u201d he said. According to him, the Turkish side states adoption of the bill can hamper normalization of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":49826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48],"tags":[7652],"class_list":["post-49823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-france","tag-denial-of-armenian-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823","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=49823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}