{"id":143786,"date":"2024-11-11T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T09:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/ataturk-commemorated-on-the-86th-anniversary-of-his-passing\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T09:07:55","slug":"ataturk-commemorated-on-the-86th-anniversary-of-his-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ataturk-commemorated-on-the-86th-anniversary-of-his-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Atat\u00fcrk commemorated on the 86th anniversary of his passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye, the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, was commemorated in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on the 86th anniversary of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>At 09:05, the time of Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s death, a moment of silence was observed nationwide, accompanied by sirens, and flags were lowered to half-mast. In the capital, Lefko\u015fa, a ceremony was held in front of the Atat\u00fcrk Monument, and a Commemoration Program took place in his honour at the Atat\u00fcrk Cultural Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by President Ersin Tatar, the Speaker of the Republic\u2019s Assembly Ziya \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler, Chief Justice Bertan \u00d6zerda\u011f, former President Mehmet Ali Talat, Turkish Ambassador to Lefko\u015fa Yasin Ekrem Serim, Commander of the Turkish Cypriot Peace Forces Command Major General Sebahattin K\u0131l\u0131n\u00e7, Commander of the Security Forces Command Major General \u0130lker G\u00f6rg\u00fcl\u00fc, Main Opposition Republican Turkish Party (CTP) leader Tufan Erh\u00fcrman, several ministers, deputies, representatives of institutions, organizations, associations, military personnel, and students.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the ceremony, President Ersin Tatar said that the great leader Atat\u00fcrk was a visionary statesman who continues to guide the future, and that the path he laid out will continue to be followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye, the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, was commemorated in<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143786","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\/143786","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}