{"id":57728,"date":"2012-10-02T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=57728"},"modified":"2014-01-07T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T18:26:08","slug":"being-armenian-is-not-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/10\/02\/being-armenian-is-not-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Armenian is not insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57730\" title=\"123030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/123030.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"236\" \/>ISTANBUL. \u2013 An Istanbul court made a ruling on the lawsuit filed by Turkey\u2019s main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who had sued the author of the book entitled \u201cEngineer Kemal: Son of Dersim Armenian [Woman] Yemus\u201d and noted that a slander campaign was launched against him by way of ethnic identity.<\/p>\n<p>The court, however, ruled that the harsh and crude expressions used in the book are within the parameters of freedom of speech specified by the European Convention on Human Rights, Istanbul\u2019s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ruling, the expressions used in the book do not jeopardize Kilicdaroglu\u2019s political career and his professional and personal life.<\/p>\n<p>To note, the aforesaid book was distributed in the Turkish parliament in February 2011, and it included offensive expressions against the CHP leader, and his mother\u2019s being Armenian was portrayed from an offensive point of view.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Kemal Kilicdaroglu had filed a claim for compensation and demanded that the court order the collection of the book\u2019s copies from bookstores.<\/p>\n<p>via Being Armenian is not insult | Armenia News &#8211; NEWS.am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL. \u2013 An Istanbul court made a ruling on the lawsuit filed by Turkey\u2019s main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who had sued the author of the book entitled \u201cEngineer Kemal: Son of Dersim Armenian [Woman] Yemus\u201d and noted that a slander campaign was launched against him by way of ethnic identity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":57730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4102],"class_list":["post-57728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-kilicdaroglu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728","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=57728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}