{"id":13673,"date":"2011-08-27T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T08:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=13673"},"modified":"2011-08-27T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T08:48:45","slug":"first-turkish-casualty-syria-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/first-turkish-casualty-syria-153\/","title":{"rendered":"First Turkish Casualty in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mecit-akdogan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13674\" title=\"First Turkish Casualty in Syria\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mecit-akdogan-280x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mecit-akdogan-280x140.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mecit-akdogan-610x305.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mecit-akdogan.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Syrian troops pushed into the restive areas of Deir al-Zour and Homs Thursday in a fresh clampdown on pro-democracy protests, a Turkish driver was killed in the town of al-Rastan near Homs, a dissident region in central Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Syrian citizens who saw that the driver, Mecit Akdogan, was killed informed the Turkish Embassy in Damascus and Turkish officials are expected to travel to al-Rastan Friday to retrieve the body of Akdogan, who was born in 1960 in the southern border province of Antakya.<\/p>\n<p>Akdogan&#8217;s killing marked the first Turkish casualty in the bloody crackdown in the neighboring country. Turkish delegation in Syria to pick up the deceased received a hearty welcome from Syrians.<\/p>\n<p>The Federation of the Coordination Committees of the Syrian Revolution, an opposition group, said that army tanks shelled the town of al-Rastan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian citizens who saw that the driver, Mecit Akdogan, was killed informed the Turkish Embassy in Damascus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,37,194,173,14],"tags":[17385,17383,17382,17386,17387,17384],"class_list":["post-13673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-world","tag-akdogan","tag-coordination-committees","tag-first-turkish-casualty-in-syria","tag-mecit-akdogan","tag-mecit-akdogan-killed","tag-syrian-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}