{"id":784445,"date":"2023-05-31T14:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=784445"},"modified":"2023-09-15T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:54:57","slug":"could-i-get-arrested-for-talking-about-the-armenian-genocide-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/05\/31\/could-i-get-arrested-for-talking-about-the-armenian-genocide-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Could I get arrested for talking about the Armenian Genocide in Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Could-I-get-arrested-for-talking-about-the-Armenian-Genocide-in-Turkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>Irene Ols on Quora answered this question as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will answer as an Armenian American, who visited Turkey, No, you are quite safe but when you visit any new country, you want to avoid talking about touchy political subjects with complete strangers. Most Turks are extremely welcoming to Armenians and consider them \u201cone of our own\u201d ethnicities. There are nationalist Turks who post here on Quora but those are an extreme minority. Most people, upon learning that you are Armenian, would normally mention something like \u201cI am very sorry to what happened to Armenians\u201d, \u201cWe miss having the rich Armenian culture here\u201d, \u201cAll the beautiful homes in Istanbul were built by Armenians and Greeks\u201d etc etc. But of course, you also have to show a non-belligerent behavior and act friendly. You would get a non-friendly attitude if you are showing one yourself today, not because of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene Ols on Quora answered this question as follows: I will answer as an Armenian American, who visited Turkey, No, you are quite safe but when you visit any new country, you want to avoid talking about touchy political subjects with complete strangers. Most Turks are extremely welcoming to Armenians and consider them \u201cone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9721],"class_list":["post-784445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784445","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=784445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}