{"id":55061,"date":"2014-10-21T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=55061"},"modified":"2014-10-21T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:24:18","slug":"opposition-pianist-turkish-culture-ministry-sweeps-fazil-say-compositions-breaking-news-55061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/opposition-pianist-turkish-culture-ministry-sweeps-fazil-say-compositions-breaking-news-55061\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Pianist: Turkish Culture Ministry sweeps Fazil Say-compositions \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fazil-Say-Compositions-Ban-Turkish-Culture-Ministry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-55069 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fazil-Say-Compositions-Ban-Turkish-Culture-Ministry.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish pianist Fazil Say rehearses with Brno Orchestra\" width=\"610\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fazil-Say-Compositions-Ban-Turkish-Culture-Ministry.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fazil-Say-Compositions-Ban-Turkish-Culture-Ministry-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fazil-Say-Compositions-Ban-Turkish-Culture-Ministry-280x185.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fazil-Say-Compositions-Ban-Turkish-Culture-Ministry-542x360.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Fazil Say is not only the most prominent classical musicians in Turkey, but also one of the most famous critics of the government. Is that the reason why a State Orchestra took two Say compositions from the program?<\/h1>\n<p>The Turkish Ministry of Culture has painted compositions of the star pianist Fazil Say and government critic from the state orchestra-year program. This was confirmed by the Turkish international star on Monday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He also demanded an explanation why his pieces had been removed. The newspaper &#8220;Radikal&#8221;, citing the cultural website &#8220;Sanattan Yansimalar&#8221;, the Presidential Symphony Orchestra had to play two pieces Says. The Ministry but the orchestra suggested to change the planned program.<\/p>\n<p>Fazil Say one of the most famous pianists and composers in Turkey. He is a critic of the Islamic-conservative government party. In the summer of last year, he had condemned the crackdown by the police against protesters Gezi. Also last year, an appeals court upheld a suspended sentence against Say for insulting Islam. He had allegedly sent islam critical tweets.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fazil Say is not only the most prominent classical musicians in Turkey, but also one of the most famous critics of the government. Is that the reason why a State Orchestra took two Say compositions from the program?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,101,171,174,194,173,188],"tags":[22488,74359,74360,22497],"class_list":["post-55061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-politics","tag-fazil-say","tag-opposition-pianists-fazil-say","tag-turkish-culture-ministry-sweeps-say-compositions","tag-turkish-pianist-fazil-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55061","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\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}