{"id":35896,"date":"2015-04-12T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=35896"},"modified":"2015-04-12T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T11:05:46","slug":"pope-francis-says-ottoman-mass-murder-of-armenians-is-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=35896","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis says Ottoman mass murder of Armenians is genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican, SANA &#8211; Pope Francis stressed Sunday that the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule 100 years ago amounted to &#8220;genocide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a Vatican church service in Rome, Pope Francis said the Ottoman Turks&#8217; crimes against the Armenian people were &#8220;widely considered &#8216;the first genocide of the 20th century&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was citing a statement signed by John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2000 which mentioned three other &#8220;massive and unprecedented tragedies&#8221; that were committed in the past century.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time the Pope has used the term &#8220;genocide&#8221; to describe the bloody massacres in which up to 1.5 million Armenian people were systematically killed by Ottoman forces in 1915, while millions of others were displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Haifa Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican, SANA &#8211; Pope Francis stressed Sunday that the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule 100 years ago amounted to &#8220;genocide&#8221;. Speaking at a Vatican church service in Rome, Pope Francis said the Ottoman Turks&#8217; crimes against the Armenian people were &#8220;widely considered &#8216;the first genocide of the 20th century&#8217;.&#8221; He was citing a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,25],"tags":[3923,5109],"class_list":["post-35896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news","category-political-news","tag-armenian-genocide","tag-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}