{"id":211,"date":"2015-01-30T23:25:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/?p=211"},"modified":"2015-02-09T23:28:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:28:23","slug":"armenian-president-describes-turkeys-april-24-invitation-as-cynical-and-shortsighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Armenian president describes Turkey\u2019s April 24 invitation as \u2018cynical and shortsighted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<br \/>\nHurriyet Daily News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s invitation to ceremonies marking the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli in \u00c7anakkale in late April, which coincides with the remembrance day for the victims of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians, was  \u201ccynical and shortsighted,\u201d Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say any measures are suitable in politics, but I believe Ankara offered a bad service to itself in this matter,\u201d Sargsyan said on Jan. 29, according to ArmeniaNow.com.<\/p>\n<p>Amid plans to hold large ceremonies to mark the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli on April 23 and 24, rather than in the traditional March, Erdo\u011fan sent out invitations to the leaders of 102 countries, including Armenian President Sargsyan and U.S. President Barack Obama.   <\/p>\n<p>Sargsyan rebuffed the invitation in letter addressed to Erdo\u011fan, recalling an invitation extended to the Turkish president to attend ceremonies to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1915 deportation and killing of Ottoman Armenians, which is considered \u201cgenocide\u201d by Armenians and many historians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL Hurriyet Daily News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s invitation to ceremonies marking the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli in \u00c7anakkale in late April, which coincides with the remembrance day for the victims of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians, was \u201ccynical and shortsighted,\u201d Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has said. \u201cThey say any measures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}