{"id":70277,"date":"2013-05-07T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T05:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=70277"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:39:15","slug":"chicago-armenians-demonstrate-against-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/05\/07\/chicago-armenians-demonstrate-against-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Armenians Demonstrate Against Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, Ill.\u2014On Wed., April 24, more than 100 demonstrators from Chicago\u2019s Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, and Cypriot communities joined a protest organized by the Chicago \u201cArarat\u201d Chapter of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) against Turkey\u2019s ongoing and aggressive campaign of denial of the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70278\" alt=\"chicago-pic-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chicago-pic-1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chicago-pic-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chicago-pic-1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turkish demonstrators chanting, \u2018You deserved it! You deserved it!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators gathered in front of Chicago\u2019s NBC Tower, the new home of the Turkish Consulate, around 11 a.m. waving Armenian and American flags, holding signs, and chanting such phrases as \u201cRecognize the Genocide,\u201d \u201cTurkey is a liar,\u201d and \u201cTurkey run, Turkey hide, Turkey is guilt of Genocide.\u201d Soon after, small groups of Turkish and Azeri counter-demonstrators exited the building, presumably from the Turkish Consulate offices, to take up positions on the opposite side of the street from the Armenian picket lines.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish counter-demonstrators began shouting slogans and cursing in Turkish at the protestors as Turkish Consul General Fatih Yildiz looked on. At one point, the Turkish group began shouting, \u201cYou deserved it! You deserved it!\u201d and \u201cTalat was right!\u201d referencing genocide-mastermind Talat Pasha and essentially admitting to Turkey\u2019s culpability in the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks during and after World War I.<\/p>\n<p>Despite repeated attempts by the Turks to intimidate and provoke the protestors even as Chicago police looked on, the AYF-led group maintained their discipline and continued with their picket for two hours. The protest concluded with the singing of \u201cMer Hairenik\u201d and \u2018Haratch Nahadag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via Chicago Armenians Demonstrate Against Denial | Armenian Weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, Ill.\u2014On Wed., April 24, more than 100 demonstrators from Chicago\u2019s Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, and Cypriot communities joined a protest organized by the Chicago \u201cArarat\u201d Chapter of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) against Turkey\u2019s ongoing and aggressive campaign of denial of the Armenian Genocide. Turkish demonstrators chanting, \u2018You deserved it! You deserved it!\u2019 The demonstrators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8040],"class_list":["post-70277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70277","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=70277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}