{"id":3861,"date":"2010-02-10T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:00:21","slug":"berlusconi-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/berlusconi-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlusconi \u2018had pact with Mafia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/berlusconi-mafia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3862\" title=\"Berlusconi \u2018had pact with Mafia\u2019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/berlusconi-mafia-232x220.jpg\" alt=\"Berlusconi \u2018had pact with Mafia\u2019\" width=\"232\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/berlusconi-mafia-232x220.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/berlusconi-mafia-381x360.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/berlusconi-mafia.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s political party, Forza Italia, was created after secret talks between the Mafia and the state, a Godfather\u2019s son has claimed. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police informer Massimo Ciancimino, whose father was mayor of Palermo on the Mafia\u2019s island stronghold of Sicily, made the sensational claim as he gave evidence in a court case.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My father told me that Forza Italia was the result of so-called talks between the government and Cosa Nostra,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He showed the court a note supposedly written by the Mafia superboss to Berlusconi\u2019s long-time aide, Marcello Dell\u2019Utri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s political party, Forza Italia, was created after secret talks between the Mafia and the state, a Godfather\u2019s son has claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,101],"tags":[3254,4918,4915,3252,4919,4916,3255],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-politics","tag-berlusconi","tag-berlusconi-forza-italia","tag-berlusconi-mafia","tag-italian-prime-minister-silvio-berlusconi","tag-marcello-dellutri","tag-massimo-ciancimino","tag-silvio-berlusconi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","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=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}