{"id":8190,"date":"2008-12-17T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T08:50:07","slug":"turkey-did-not-commit-any-crime-against-armenians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/12\/17\/turkey-did-not-commit-any-crime-against-armenians\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey did not commit any crime against Armenians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headstory\">\u201cI can not understand those who launched this campaign. I can not understand this logic,\u201d Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"news_text\"><\/span><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.anspress.com\/nid97125.html\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized a campaign of apology to the Armenians launched by the Turkish academics, writers and journalists recently, Turkey\u2019s Time Turk news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can not understand those who launched this campaign. I can not understand this logic,\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 200 Turkish academics, writers and journalists launched a website issuing an\u00a0apology\u00a0to the Armenians regarding the 1915 incidents and calling for people to sign on in support. Over 5,000 people have registered on the website, Turkish media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia and Armenian lobby worldwide state that in 1915 the Ottoman Empire, Turkey\u2019s predecessor, committed genocide against Armenians living in Anatolia. Armenians striving to make their statements recognized worldwide have strengthened their propaganda of the so-called genocide in several countries and have achieved recognition of the \u201cArmenian genocide\u201d at several Parliaments.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister said this campaign will only create confusion. \u201c&#8221;I neither accept nor support this campaign.\u00a0We did not commit a crime, therefore we do not need to apologize,&#8221; Erdogan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI can not understand those who launched this campaign. I can not understand this logic,\u201d Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Turkey\u2019s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized a campaign of apology to the Armenians launched by the Turkish academics, writers and journalists recently, Turkey\u2019s Time Turk news agency reported. \u201cI can not understand those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":52500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","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=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}