{"id":179583,"date":"2017-12-25T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/25\/erdogan-wants-to-return-to-the-ottoman-empire-that-appears-to-include-the-genocides\/"},"modified":"2017-12-25T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T01:35:00","slug":"erdogan-wants-to-return-to-the-ottoman-empire-that-appears-to-include-the-genocides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/25\/erdogan-wants-to-return-to-the-ottoman-empire-that-appears-to-include-the-genocides\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan Wants to Return to the Ottoman Empire.  That Appears to Include the Genocides."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan just issued a decree that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/2017\/12\/25\/erdogan-decree-stirs-fears-of-legalized-extrajudicial-violence-in-turkey.html\">grants immunity for extra-judicial violence against anyone deemed to have participated in the coup, or its &#8220;continuation&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;continuation&#8221; appears to be defined as, &#8220;Anyone and anything that Erdo\u011fan considers a threat to his power&#8221;, which bodes ill for opposition parties, and the Kurds, and other ethnic minorities in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>How to deal with the transformation of a NATO ally to this is profoundly unsettling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan just issued a decree that grants immunity for extra-judicial violence against anyone deemed to have participated in the coup, or its &#8220;continuation&#8221;. The term &#8220;continuation&#8221; appears to be defined as, &#8220;Anyone and anything that Erdo\u011fan considers a threat to his power&#8221;, which bodes ill for opposition parties, and the Kurds, and other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,368,697,374,582],"class_list":["post-179583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-corruption","tag-near-east","tag-politics","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}