{"id":141922,"date":"2019-08-09T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T08:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/erenkoy-resistance-and-the-martyrs-remembered\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T08:38:52","slug":"erenkoy-resistance-and-the-martyrs-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/erenkoy-resistance-and-the-martyrs-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Erenk\u00f6y Resistance and the Martyrs remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erenk\u00f6y Resistance on August 8, 1964, which is one of the turning points in the history of the Turkish Cypriot struggle and those who lost their lives during this resistance, was commemorated yesterday (8<sup>th<\/sup> August).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was held with the participation of President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131, Speaker of the TRNC Assembly Teberr\u00fcken Ulu\u00e7ay, Prime Minister Ersin Tatar, state and government officials, as well as Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, Chief of Turkish General Staff Full General Ya\u015far G\u00fcler and Force Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many university students who were then studying in Turkey and also more than 500 young Turkish Cypriot people from the UK came to the island by boats in 1964 and struggled against the Greek Cypriot attacks in a critical struggle together with the people in the Erenk\u00f6y region and this has been a cornerstone in the struggle for existence of the Turkish Cypriot people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>18 people in 1964 and 3 people in 1974 lost their lives in Erenk\u00f6y.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erenk\u00f6y Resistance on August 8, 1964, which is one of the turning points in the history<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-141922","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\/141922","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=141922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}