{"id":726,"date":"2019-10-10T05:26:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=726"},"modified":"2019-10-10T05:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:26:21","slug":"aca-supports-turkey-sanctions-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/aca-supports-turkey-sanctions-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"ACA Supports Turkey Sanctions Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Armenian Council of America (ACA)\nsupports the bipartisan legislation proposed by United States Senators Lindsey\nGraham (R-SC) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) to sanction Turkey for invading\nnorthern Syria, attacking America\u2019s Kurdish allies and indiscriminately bombing\ncivilian areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACA believes the bipartisan\nlegislation is crucial in light of President Trump\u2019s reckless and unexpected\nwithdrawal of U.S. forces from northeast Syria, and the president\u2019s sanctioning\nof the Turkish invasion, whose primary goal is the targeting and eradication of\nKurds within the region and other ethnic minorities; including Armenians,\nAssyrians, and Yazidis.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_1-791x1024.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_1-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"730\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?attachment_id=730\" class=\"wp-image-730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_1-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_1-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_1-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_1-1600x2071.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_1.png 1870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_2-791x1024.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_2-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"731\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?attachment_id=731\" class=\"wp-image-731 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_2-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_2-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_2-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_2-1600x2071.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Page_2.png 1700w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 791px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 791\/1024;\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Graham-Van Hollen Turkey Sanctions\nBill puts restrictions on U.S. assets of Turkey\u2019s President, Vice president,\nMinister of National Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Treasury\nand Finance, Minister of Trade, and Minister of Energy and Natural Resources.\nThe bill targets Turkey\u2019s energy sector and military, prohibiting U.S. military\nassistance, sanctions against any foreign person who sells or provides\nfinancial, material or technological support or who knowingly conducts business\ndealings with the Turkish military. The bill also implements visa restrictions\nupon Turkish authorities intending to travel to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACA urges Americans throughout the\nnation to contact their Senators and Congressional Representatives, urging them\nto support the Turkey Sanctions Bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACA considers the Turkey Sanctions\nBill a first step towards ensuring Turkey cease its military operations and\nmilitant attitude towards regional minorities. &nbsp;The U.S. administration needs to re-engage with\nregional leaders, stand by and support its allies and demand the Turkish\ngovernment stop its unilateral actions in northern Syria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. government must mandate that Turkey\ncease its anti-democratic foreign and domestic policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACA will continuously engage with\nelected officials, stakeholders, coalition partners, and local regional Armenian,\nKurdish, Assyrian and Yazidi leaders, to combat Erdogan\u2019s genocidal ambitions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The\nArmenian Council of America is committed to promote the civic and civil rights\ninterests of the Armenian American community, and to champion the causes and\nconcerns of the Armenian-American community within local, state, and federal\ngovernments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian Council of America (ACA) supports the bipartisan legislation proposed by United States Senators&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",701,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header-300x214.png",250,178,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",640,456,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",400,285,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",701,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",701,500,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",701,500,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",701,500,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",701,500,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",477,340,false],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",351,250,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png",45,32,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> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/category\/press-releases\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Press Releases<\/a>","tag_info":"Press Releases","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-Sanctions_Header.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}