{"id":14417,"date":"2011-10-15T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T11:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:44:08","slug":"turkish-president-gul-visits-iraq-516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-president-gul-visits-iraq-516\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish President Gul Visits Troops on Iraq Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/abdullah-gul-news.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14418\" title=\"Turkish President Gul Visits Troops on Iraq Border\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/abdullah-gul-news-270x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/abdullah-gul-news-270x220.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/abdullah-gul-news-443x360.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/abdullah-gul-news.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Friday made a surprise visit to Turkey&#8217;s southeast to inspect troops on the Iraq border and boost the morale of soldiers.<\/h2>\n<p>The president, accompanied by Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel, visited troops in the Yuksekova district of the border city of Hakkari.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports, citing sources working for the office of the presidency, said the visit aimed to boost the morale of soldiers and that the president&#8217;s visit will not be limited to Yuksekova. He will reportedly visit troops in other areas along the border.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has recently seen increased violence in the Southeast by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK). The group, classified as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has killed more than 50 people, including civilians, in the past couple of months.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Friday made a surprise visit to Turkey&#8217;s southeast to inspect troops on the Iraq border and boost the morale of soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,174,194,173],"tags":[1149,18275,2665,18276,12499],"class_list":["post-14417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-abdullah-gul","tag-chief-of-general-staff-gen","tag-kurdistan-workers","tag-necdet-ozel","tag-turkish-president-gul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417","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=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}