{"id":574,"date":"2019-04-26T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=574"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:11:33","slug":"congressman-frank-pallone-slams-erdogans-april-24-speech-as-disgusting-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/congressman-frank-pallone-slams-erdogans-april-24-speech-as-disgusting-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Frank Pallone Slams Erdogan\u2019s April 24 Speech as \u2018Disgusting Denial\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone has slammed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/massispost.com\/2019\/04\/erdogan-defends-1915-armenian-deportations-the-most-reasonable-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">April 24 remarks<\/a>&nbsp;of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as \u201ca disgusting denial of historical facts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis hate-filled speech Erdogan gave yesterday on the day to commemorate the Armenian Genocide was a disgusting denial of historical facts,\u201d Rep. Pallone tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI stand with [Armenian Prime Minister]&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/massispost.com\/2019\/04\/pashinyan-condemns-erdogan-for-hate-speech-and-new-high-in-denialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikol Pashinyan<\/a>&nbsp;and Armenians everywhere in condemning a new low from this brutal authoritarian,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Pashinyan urged the international community to respond to the Turkish leader who called the population of the Ottoman Empire \u201cArmenian gangs and their supporters\u201d in his speech on 24 April, adding their deportation was \u201cthe most reasonable action that could be taken in such a period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone has slammed the&nbsp;April 24 remarks&nbsp;of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",800,533,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2-300x200.jpg",250,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",400,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",800,533,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",800,533,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",800,533,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",750,500,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",800,533,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",510,340,false],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",375,250,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg",45,30,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/frankpallone2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}