{"id":5347,"date":"2008-10-08T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:17:08","slug":"mccain-it-is-our-responsibility-to-recognize-1915-tragic-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/10\/08\/mccain-it-is-our-responsibility-to-recognize-1915-tragic-events\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain: it is our = responsibility to recognize 1915 tragic events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"date\">07.10.2008 16:41 GMT+04:00  <a target=\"_blank\"><\/a> \u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.panarmenian.net\/news\/rus\/?nid=27291\"><\/span> \u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.panarmenian.net\/news\/arm\/?nid=27291\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"issue_body\">\n<p class=\"issue_body_p\"><strong>\/PanARMENIAN.Net\/<\/strong> The McCain-Palin =ampaign issued a letter to the Armenian-American community. In the letter, =enator <strong>John McCain<\/strong> (R-AZ) wrote that he is &#8220;grateful for all of the contributions that Armenian-Americans have made to our wonderful =ountry,&#8221; and that he &#8220;greatly value[s] the opportunity to stand with the =rmenian-American community,&#8221; the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) told <a>PanARMENIAN.Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardin= U..S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, the statement refrains from =eferring to the events of 1915-1923 as genocide, and instead employs a dictionary definition. McCain said, &#8220;It is fair to say that one of the greatest =ragedies of the 20th century, the brutal murder of as many as one and a half =illion Armenians under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, has also been one of =he most neglected. The suffering endured by the Armenian people during that =eriod represented the prologue to what has come to be known as humanity&#8217;s =loodiest century.&#8221; He added that &#8220;It is our responsibility to recognize those =ragic events and to ensure that our world never experiences the impact of =he bloody conflicts that so filled the 20th century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCain also thanked =rmenia for her &#8220;support of coalition operations in Iraq and NATO peacekeeping =fforts in Kosovo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"issue_body_p\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><a>http:\/\/www.pana=menian.net\/news\/eng\/?nid=27291<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07.10.2008 16:41 GMT+04:00 \u00a0 \u00a0 \/PanARMENIAN.Net\/ The McCain-Palin =ampaign issued a letter to the Armenian-American community. In the letter, =enator John McCain (R-AZ) wrote that he is &#8220;grateful for all of the contributions that Armenian-Americans have made to our wonderful =ountry,&#8221; and that he &#8220;greatly value[s] the opportunity to stand with the =rmenian-American community,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":52500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","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\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}