{"id":7758,"date":"2008-11-29T02:12:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/29\/refusing-the-hand-of-friendship\/"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:25:44","slug":"refusing-the-hand-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/29\/refusing-the-hand-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusing the hand of friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High on a hill overlooking the city of Kars, there is a vast column of concrete obscured by wooden scaffolding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hand of friendship has yet to be proffered, let alone accepted<\/p>\n<p>What is inside was meant as a 32m (100ft) peace gesture from Turkey to Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an image of two human figures, facing one another with a hand of friendship held out between them,&#8221; explains the security guard, emerging from the portable building at the statue&#8217;s feet.<\/p>\n<p>But on the day the finished project should have been unveiled its giant hand stands severed on the hillside.<\/p>\n<p>This friendship statue has enemies, and they have forced construction to stop.<\/p>\n<p>BBC NEWS | Europe | Refusing the hand of friendship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High on a hill overlooking the city of Kars, there is a vast column of concrete obscured by wooden scaffolding.\u00a0\u00a0 The hand of friendship has yet to be proffered, let alone accepted What is inside was meant as a 32m (100ft) peace gesture from Turkey to Armenia. &#8220;It&#8217;s an image of two human figures, facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","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=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}