{"id":446918,"date":"2010-03-19T07:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2010-03-19T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:14:06","slug":"turkey-to-the-world-use-the-word-genocide-and-we%e2%80%99ll-kick-out-the-armenians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446918","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to the World: Use the Word Genocide and We\u2019ll Kick Out the Armenians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Kevin Jon Heller <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You just can&#8217;t <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=turkish-pm-threatens-to-expel-armenian-workers-2010-03-17\">make this stuff up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has taken a harsh position  against undocumented Armenian workers in Turkey, threatening to expel  thousands amid tensions over allegations that Armenians were victims of  \u201cgenocide\u201d during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Resolutions passed recently in the United States and Sweden to brand  the World War I killings as \u201cgenocide\u201d undermine peace efforts with  Armenia, Erdo\u011fan said during his visit to London, according to excerpts  from an interview with the BBC Turkish service published on the BBC Web  site late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>[snip]<\/p>\n<p>Referring to about 100,000 undocumented Armenians working in Turkey that  Ankara has so far tolerated, Erdo\u011fan said: \u201cSo what will I do tomorrow?  If necessary, I will tell them &#8216;come on, back to your country&#8217;&#8230; I&#8217;m  not obliged to keep them in my country. Those actions [on genocide  resolutions] unfortunately have a negative impact on our sincere  attitudes,\u201d Agence France-Presse quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, Turkey deporting large numbers of Armenians.\u00a0 Why does that sound <a  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armenian_Genocide\">so familiar<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/yBCylPS5SgM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Jon Heller You just can&#8217;t make this stuff up: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has taken a harsh position against undocumented Armenian workers in Turkey, threatening to expel thousands amid tensions over allegations that Armenians were victims of \u201cgenocide\u201d during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Resolutions passed recently in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}