{"id":143226,"date":"2022-12-26T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T09:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/commemoration-of-larnaka-martyrs\/"},"modified":"2022-12-26T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T09:29:45","slug":"commemoration-of-larnaka-martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/commemoration-of-larnaka-martyrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of Larnaka Martyrs \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Cypriot fighters who were martyred during the years of National Struggle for existence in the Larnaka district\u00a0were commemorated with a ceremony on Friday (23rd December).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TRNC President Ersin Tatar, Speaker of the Assembly Zorlu T\u00f6re, Security Forces Commander Major General Zorlu Topalo\u011flu, regional schools, citizens and relatives of martyrs attended the ceremony\u00a0at the Larnaka Martyrs Monument located in \u0130skele.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the ceremony, President Ersin Tatar stated that the Greek Cypriots committed massacres on the island in order to implement the Akritas Plan and to turn Cyprus into a Hellenic island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We established our own state with the spirit of resistance that we had shown during those times to defend ourselves in order to survive. The TRNC was established under very difficult conditions, and by paying a very high price\u201d said President Tatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Cypriot fighters who were martyred during the years of National Struggle for existence in the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143226","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\/143226","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}