{"id":2017,"date":"2016-04-04T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:41:05","slug":"garo-paylan-statements-of-president-and-prime-minister-make-armenians-a-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Garo Paylan: Statements of President and Prime Minister Make Armenians a Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>BIA News Desk<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2018\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Covcas-Garo-Paylan-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2018\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Covcas-Garo-Paylan-1-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Garo Paylan\" width=\"252\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Covcas-Garo-Paylan-1-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Covcas-Garo-Paylan-1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garo Paylan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (HDP) MP, Garo Paylan has stated that the statements of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu make the Armenian society a target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Erdo\u011fan at the press meeting he held on April 3 at Brookings Institue said, \u201cAhead of the talk I would give at the conference at the Brookings Institute, I saw representative of Parallel State Structure which gives an illegal organization image in legal image. Not only terror organizations in Turkey but also Armenian ASALA organization was there too\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Davuto\u011flu in his speech on February 27 in Bing\u00f6l province addressing the Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (HDP) said, \u201cThey are cooperating with Russia like Armenian gangs. They go to Moscow and open representation office\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cThe expression Armenian is still a swear word\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Garo Paylan has noted that those expressions of the President and the Prime Minister turned the Armenian society which had the statute of minority, into a target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPronouncing the name of a society consistently together with the words \u2018organization\u2019 and \u2018gang\u2019 means the attempt to criminalize the aforementioned Armenian society. We have seen in the writings on the walls In cities under barricade, that the word \u2018Armenian\u2019 was still being used as a swear word in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYet the expressions of the President and the Prime Minister are supporting this phenomenon and encouraging those targeting the Armenians. Besides these expressions do increase the apprehension of the Armenian people as the first target of hate speech who are also exposed to attacks and still suffer losses due to hate crimes. As an Armenian Prime Minister with the citizenship of Turkey, I condemn these expressions of the President and the Prime Minister and hope that they would not repeat that. (NV\/TG\/DG)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>BIA News Desk Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (HDP) MP, Garo Paylan has stated that the statements of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2017\" title=\"Garo Paylan: Statements of President and Prime Minister Make Armenians a Target\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-turkey-minority-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}