{"id":606,"date":"2019-04-16T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T07:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=606"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:51:34","slug":"iraqi-muslim-spiritual-leaders-call-on-turkey-to-apologize-for-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/iraqi-muslim-spiritual-leaders-call-on-turkey-to-apologize-for-armenian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Muslim Spiritual Leaders Call on Turkey to Apologize for Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 15, Ambassador of Armenia to Iraq, Hrachya Poladian received\n the Chairman of the National Council of Iraq, Shaykh Yousif Al-Nasri, \nmembers of the Supreme Standing Committee for Co-existence and Community\n Peace of Iraqi Government, as well as the delegation of clergymen \naccompanying them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the course of the meeting, the Muslim \nspiritual leaders presented works aimed at strengthening the cooperation\n between national and religious minority communities in Iraq, \nunderlining the invaluable role of the Iraqi Armenian community and the \nArmenian Apostolic Church in Iraq, especially during the war and its \npost-war period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issues related to the Armenian Genocide were \ndiscussed at the meeting with spiritual leaders. Shaykh Yousif Al-Nasri,\n strongly condemned the inhumane crime committed in the Ottoman Empire, \nunderlining that the current Turkish authorities should ask the Armenian\n people for forgiveness for their sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the meeting,\n the spiritual leaders conveyed their greetings and best wishes to \nCatholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, emphasizing the importance of \nthe treatment by the Iraqi authorities on religious and ethnic \nminorities in Iraq, highlighting the necessity of developing links to \nthe interfaith solidarity of the two peoples in Iraq\u2019s multinational and\n multi-dimensional mosaic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 15, Ambassador of Armenia to Iraq, Hrachya Poladian received the Chairman of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","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\/iraq.jpg",800,583,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq-300x219.jpg",250,183,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq-768x560.jpg",640,467,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",400,292,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",800,583,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",800,583,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",800,583,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",686,500,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",800,583,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",467,340,false],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",343,250,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iraq.jpg",45,33,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\/iraq.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}