{"id":8306,"date":"2008-12-29T23:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T08:49:45","slug":"turkish-opposition-demands-to-tackle-armenian-to-join-eurovision-contest-with-so-called-genocide-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/12\/29\/turkish-opposition-demands-to-tackle-armenian-to-join-eurovision-contest-with-so-called-genocide-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish opposition demands to tackle Armenian to join Eurovision contest with so-called \u201cgenocide\u201d song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text_spot\">Ankara\u2013APA. Armenian-American rock band \u201cSystem of a Down\u201d will join the Eurovision 2009 Song Contest in Moscow in May. Turkish opposition concerns about this decision, APA reports quoting the Turkish news agencies. Member of the Parliament from the Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) Akif Ekici addressed Prime Minister Receb Tayib Erdogan reminding that this group is going to perform a song about the so-called \u201cArmenian genocide\u201d. \u201cThis group prints in its concert tickets \u201cNo entry for dogs and Turks\u201d. Their song \u201cHoly Mountains\u201d offends the Turkish people and their leader Ataturk\u201d. The lawmaker asked the Prime Minister what measures would be taken for prevention of this group to join the Eurovision contest with this song. \u201cWere Armenia and European Broadcasting Union addressed on this issue? What will happen if this group wins the contest with its song on so-called \u201cgenocide\u201d? Would the world recognize \u201cgenocide\u201d in this case, it wouldn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Eurovision bans to perform political songs, but tactful performers can make political messages through different subtleties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/news.php?id=94559\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara\u2013APA. Armenian-American rock band \u201cSystem of a Down\u201d will join the Eurovision 2009 Song Contest in Moscow in May. Turkish opposition concerns about this decision, APA reports quoting the Turkish news agencies. Member of the Parliament from the Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) Akif Ekici addressed Prime Minister Receb Tayib Erdogan reminding that this group is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":671544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306","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=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}