{"id":12862,"date":"2011-07-11T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2011-07-11T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:59:06","slug":"worlds-biggest-thematic-aquarium-opened-in-istanbul-last-week-12862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/worlds-biggest-thematic-aquarium-opened-in-istanbul-last-week-12862\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s biggest thematic aquarium opened in Istanbul last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12863\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12863\" title=\"istanbul_aquarium-nationalturk-134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/istanbul_aquarium-nationalturk-134-541x360.jpg\" alt=\"Istanbul Aquarium\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Istanbul Aquarium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>The biggest thematic aquarium of the world opened in Istanbul last week.<\/h1>\n<p>Aquarium Istanbul has a\u00a0fish tank capacity of around 7,000 cubic metres, housing 15,000 different aquatic animal species, and it hopes to help Istanbul become one of the leading tourist locations internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Creatures have been sourced from 16 separate regions ranging from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The facility was opened by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, alongside the mayor of Istanbul Kadir Topbas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Istanbul is moving, working, manufacturing, it is clear these things are also good for Turkey,&#8221; the prime minister said.<\/p>\n<h2>Istanbul Aquarium : 25 Million Visitors annually<\/h2>\n<p>It hopes to have 25 million visitors every year, with thousands of people coming to watch the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The largest\u00a0aquarium in the world is in Georgia in the USA. It has ten million gallons of water in more than 60 exhibits and was opened in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aquarium\u00a0Aquarium Istanbul\u00a0Istanbul\u00a0istanbul\u00a0Aquarium Istanbul Fish\u00a0Aquarium<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest thematic aquarium of the world opened in Istanbul last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,80,63,45,17,118,117,174,194,14],"tags":[16409,16407,16408,6745],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-entertainment","category-europe","category-hot","category-travel","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-world","tag-aquarium","tag-aquarium-istanbul","tag-aquarium-istanbul-fish","tag-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}