{"id":141,"date":"2014-10-26T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-12-16T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T13:00:27","slug":"is-this-how-anzacs-are-to-be-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Is this how Anzacs are to be honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To the Australian government we say: it is time to stop outsourcing Armenian Genocide policy to Turkey, and \u2013 in the interest of regional stability and in defense of human rights \u2013 to support a truthful and just resolution of this crime. <\/p>\n<p>Futile efforts by others to appease Turkey have failed to end Ankara\u2019s blockade of Armenia and only hardened Ankara\u2019s denial of truth and obstruction of justice for this crime. <\/p>\n<p>This denial poisons Armenian-Turkish relations, fosters wave after wave of anti-Armenian intolerance within Turkey, threatens Armenia\u2019s and Artsakh\u2019s security, and, of course, fuels regional tensions.<br \/>\n\u2003<br \/>\nThe future of this region \u2013 its sustainable stability over the long-term \u2013 cannot be built upon a foundation of lies.<br \/>\nJustice is good geopolitics. <\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, this complicity in Turkey\u2019s denial is a demoralizing blow to those non-Armenian members of society in Turkey who, sometimes at great risks, recognize and commemorate the Armenian Genocide. <\/p>\n<p>And allow me to also say, that this complicity is an affront to the memory of all those fallen Anzacs on whose behalf this complicity in Turkish denial is going on. The Australian government is silencing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armeniangenocide.com.au\/anzac\" target=\"_blank\">their memoires<\/a>, because they too speak of the crimes committed by the Ottoman Empire against its Armenian citizens. Is this how Anzacs are to be honored?    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Giro Manoyan<br \/>\nDirector, Armenian National Committee \u2013 International<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Australian government we say: it is time to stop outsourcing Armenian Genocide policy to Turkey, and \u2013 in the interest of regional stability and in defense of human rights \u2013 to support a truthful and just resolution of this crime. Futile efforts by others to appease Turkey have failed to end Ankara\u2019s blockade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}