{"id":748240,"date":"2022-03-02T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=748240"},"modified":"2022-03-02T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:27:09","slug":"to-portray-turkish-nation-as-perpetrators-of-genocide-constitutes-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2022\/03\/02\/to-portray-turkish-nation-as-perpetrators-of-genocide-constitutes-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"To portray Turkish Nation as perpetrators of genocide constitutes\u00a0 \u201chate speech\u201d\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Honorable Members of the House of Commons,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timothy Loughton MP\u2019s private members bill which will have a second reading on the 18<sup>th <\/sup>of March 2022 regarding the recognition of \u201cArmenian Genocide\u201d is not supported by history and law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genocide is a legal term internationally defined by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Article 4 of the Convention classifies crime of genocide as committed by persons, not by a state. And according to article 6, this crime must be heard and proven by a specific court.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without a fair judicial trial, parliaments \u2013 e.g., the House of Commons &#8211; has no legal and legislative authority for characterising a historical event as genocide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, Timothy Loughton\u2019s bill portrays Turkish Nation as perpetrator of genocide, contrary to the framework of the Convention and sadly demonstrates the characteristics of an anti-Turkish, anti-Muslim hate speech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/06-hate-speech-edited-version.docx.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 06-hate-speech-edited-version.docx g\u00f6m\u00fcs\u00fc..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-58fa6d9c-a89d-4bae-b19c-2a80a1369786\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/06-hate-speech-edited-version.docx.pdf\">06-hate-speech-edited-version.docx<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/06-hate-speech-edited-version.docx.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-58fa6d9c-a89d-4bae-b19c-2a80a1369786\">\u0130ndir<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Honorable Members of the House of Commons, Timothy Loughton MP\u2019s private members bill which will have a second reading on the 18th of March 2022 regarding the recognition of \u201cArmenian Genocide\u201d is not supported by history and law.&nbsp; Genocide is a legal term internationally defined by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Article 4 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":745967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[9721,10599],"class_list":["post-748240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-armenian-question","tag-uluc-gurkan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748240","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=748240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}