{"id":824833,"date":"2026-01-31T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=824833"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:12:29","slug":"new-york-state-so-called-armenian-genocide-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2026\/01\/31\/new-york-state-so-called-armenian-genocide-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State So-called \u201cArmenian Genocide\u201d narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New York State So-called \u201cArmenian Genocide\u201d narrative \/ New York Turkish Consul General<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Turkish Consul General Ahmet Yazal has presided over one of the weakest and most ineffective periods of representation for the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye in New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the so-called \u201cArmenian Genocide\u201d narrative is being advanced in New York State Senate. The Consulate remains silent offering no pushback, no outreach, and no public diplomacy whatsoever. It is difficult to recall a consul general who has been more disengaged from the responsibilities of defending Turkish interests abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ibrahim Kurtulus\u00a0<br>Community Activist\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ahmet-yazal-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-824834\" title=\"Inline image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ahmet-yazal-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ahmet-yazal-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ahmet-yazal-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ahmet-yazal.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State So-called \u201cArmenian Genocide\u201d narrative \/ New York Turkish Consul General New York Turkish Consul General Ahmet Yazal has presided over one of the weakest and most ineffective periods of representation for the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye in New York. While the so-called \u201cArmenian Genocide\u201d narrative is being advanced in New York State Senate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":824834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11047],"tags":[11019,2463,9844],"class_list":["post-824833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibrahim-kurtulus","tag-ahmet-yazal","tag-new-york","tag-so-called-armenian-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824833","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\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}