{"id":140730,"date":"2017-05-22T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/19th-of-may-commemoration-of-ataturk-youth-and-sports-day\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:00:42","slug":"19th-of-may-commemoration-of-ataturk-youth-and-sports-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/19th-of-may-commemoration-of-ataturk-youth-and-sports-day\/","title":{"rendered":"19th of May Commemoration of Atat\u00fcrk, Youth and Sports Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 19<sup>th<\/sup> of May Commemoration of Atat\u00fcrk, Youth and Sports Day was celebrated with several events in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and in Turkey. The celebrations began with the opening speech of the National Education and Culture Minister \u00d6zdemir Berova on BRTK.\u00a0Wreaths were laid at the Atat\u00fcrk monuments in Lefko\u015fa as well as in other cities and villages. President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 participated in the opening ceremony alongside the Parliament\u2019s deputy Speaker H\u00fcseyin Avk\u0131ran Alanl\u0131, Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn, 2<sup>nd\u00a0<\/sup>President Mehmet Ali Talat, Turkish Ambassador to Lefko\u015fa \u00a0Derya Kanbay,\u00a0Commander of the Cyprus Turkish Peace Force Command Lieutenant General \u00d6mer Pa\u00e7, Security Forces Commander Major General Y\u0131lmaz Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m, Supreme Court President Narin Ferdi \u015eefik, Leader of the Republican Turkish Party Tufan Erh\u00fcrman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Serdar Denkta\u015f, Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu and other ministers, parliamentarians and officials. During the ceremony, that was held at the Atat\u00fcrk Monument in Lefko\u015fa, flags were raised, the national anthem was played and a minute of silence was observed. At the end of the ceremony, Turkish Ambassador to Lefko\u015fa Derya Kanbay handed President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 soil brought directly from An\u0131tkabir, Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th of May Commemoration of Atat\u00fcrk, Youth and Sports Day was celebrated with several events<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}