{"id":148191,"date":"2025-09-01T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=148191"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:11:17","slug":"martyrs-remembered-in-lefkosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/martyrs-remembered-in-lefkosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Martyrs remembered in Lefko\u015fa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first martyrs of the Turkish Cypriot national struggle for existence \u2014 the heroes of the 9 September Front, Ulus \u00dclfet, \u0130smail Beyo\u011flu, Mustafa Ertan, and Kubilay Altayl\u0131 were commemorated at a ceremony held in Lefko\u015fa.<\/p>\n<p>In his address at the ceremony, President Ersin Tatar said: \u201cThere are two separate peoples, two separate States, and two separate democracies in Cyprus. The guarantorship of motherland T\u00fcrkiye and the presence of Turkish soldiers on the island are the red line of our peace, tranquility, and security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recalling that Ulus \u00dclfet, \u0130smail Beyo\u011flu, Mustafa Ertan, and Kubilay Altayl\u0131 sacrificed their lives 68 years ago while still very young, President Tatar said their struggle illuminated the path of the Turkish Cypriot people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first martyrs of the Turkish Cypriot national struggle for existence \u2014 the heroes of the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":148153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148191","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=148191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148192,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148191\/revisions\/148192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}