{"id":1518,"date":"2010-09-29T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","slug":"turkey-refuses-australian-archaeologists-visas-due-to-genocide-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/turkey-refuses-australian-archaeologists-visas-due-to-genocide-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Refuses Australian Archaeologists&#8217; Visas Due to Genocide Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>ADO &#8211; <\/strong>The Federal Government says it is hoping to resolve a dispute that is threatening a planned survey of Gallilopi battlefields in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s ambassador to Australia and New Zealand is refusing to issue visas to archaeologists from the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He has told Radio New Zealand he is unhappy with a World War I monument built in Sydney which commemorates the deaths of around 750,000 Assyrians.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe monument, erected by Assyrian community leaders, refers to the alleged killing of the Assyrians by Ottoman troops as &quot;genocide&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Oguz Ozge, Turkey&#8217;s ambassador to Australia and New Zealand, says the monument is &quot;quite unacceptable.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is quite concerning to the Turkish government and as long as remedial action is not taken we intend to do something on the part of the Turkish government,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists from Turkey, New Zealand and Australia are next week due to begin mapping the Gallipoli peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>A final decision to suspend the Gallipoli survey has not yet been taken, but Mr Ozge said it &quot;could be, until we find a way out&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman says discussions are currently taking place between the Department and the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs to sort out the issue of the delayed visas.<\/p>\n<p>Vandals have attacked the monument, spray-painting it with the words, &quot;Assyrian dogs&quot;, and the Turkish flag.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Source: AFP<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADO &#8211; The Federal Government says it is hoping to resolve a dispute that is threatening a planned survey of Gallilopi battlefields in Turkey. Turkey&#8217;s ambassador to Australia and New Zealand is refusing to issue visas to archaeologists from the two countries. He has told Radio New Zealand he is unhappy with a World War &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/09\/Monument.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}