{"id":19760,"date":"2012-06-15T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19760"},"modified":"2012-06-15T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:09:26","slug":"turkeys-first-coin-without-ataturk-s-visage-on-it-put-in-use-19760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkeys-first-coin-without-ataturk-s-visage-on-it-put-in-use-19760\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s first coin without Atat\u00fcrk &#8216;s visage on it put in use"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19761\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19761\" title=\"Turkey's first coin without Atat\u00fcrk 's visage on it put in use\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/turkish-coin-ataturk-visage-nationalturk-0455-280x141.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey's first coin without Atat\u00fcrk 's visage on it put in use\" width=\"280\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/turkish-coin-ataturk-visage-nationalturk-0455-280x141.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/turkish-coin-ataturk-visage-nationalturk-0455.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey&#39;s first coin without Atat\u00fcrk &#39;s visage on it put in use<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Turkish State mint has monetised the Turkish Republic\u2019s first coins not to feature Rebuplic&#8217;s founder Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s visage on either of its sides.<\/h2>\n<p>Istanbul \/ NationalTurk &#8211; The new coins, a million of which are now in use, were made as souvenirs by the Turkish State Mint to mark the 10th anniversary of the Turkish Olympics, an event in which children from around the world come to Turkey to display their prowess in Turkish by singing pop songs. The event is linked with G\u00fclen movement, the organisation founded by self-exile Turkish imam Fethullah G\u00fclen in the USA which has schools across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The use of coins without Ataturk visage has stirred contoversy and a public debate as some citizens represent their dislike of the new arrangement, mentioning it was part of planned state propaganda led by AKP government to discredit modern Turkey&#8217;s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216; It&#8217;s unacceptable that these Turkish coins, supposedly made as souvenirs, are being put to use, &#8216; daily Cumhuriyet wrote.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish State mint has monetised the Turkish Republic\u2019s first coins not to feature Rebuplic&#8217;s founder Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s visage on either of its sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,51,17,118,101,174,184,194,173,188,14],"tags":[16490,18152,18543,25224,8007,13095,25225,25226,25227,25223,25185,25222],"class_list":["post-19760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-europe","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-economy","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-politics","category-world","tag-akp-government","tag-akp-government-turkey","tag-ataturk-turkey","tag-ataturk-visage","tag-fethullah-gulen","tag-mustafa-kemal-ataturk","tag-turkey-coins","tag-turkey-coins-ataturk","tag-turkey-founder","tag-turkish-coins","tag-turkish-olympics","tag-turkish-state-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760","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=19760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}