{"id":58777,"date":"2017-04-27T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58777"},"modified":"2017-04-27T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:03:00","slug":"remains-of-19th-century-russian-soldier-found-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/remains-of-19th-century-russian-soldier-found-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains Of 19th Century Russian Soldier Found In Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A skeleton thought to belong to a 19th century Russian soldier has been found by builders in northeastern Turkey.<\/h2>\n<p>The corpse is believed to belong to an army captain who was part of the forces that captured Ottoman territory in the 1877-78 Russo-Ottoman war.<\/p>\n<p>The body was in a coffin decorated with the Russian Orthodox cross in the Karagol neighborhood of Ardahan province, which fell to Russian troops in May 1877.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably [the body belongs to] a soldier who served during the Russian occupation in Kars and Ardahan after the Ottoman-Russian war in 1877-1878,\u201d Necmettin Alp, the director of Kars Museum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/russian-soldier-skeleton-turkey-576x768.jpg\" alt=\"Remains Of 19th Century Russian Soldier Found In Turkey\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/russian-soldier-skeleton-turkey-576x768.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/russian-soldier-skeleton-turkey-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/russian-soldier-skeleton-turkey.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Anadolu Agency, The soldier\u2019s body, still clad in the remains of a military uniform and boots, was discovered on Tuesday evening and reported to police by locals carrying out building work.<\/p>\n<p>Alp described it as the body of a \u201cRussian captain who worked in a Russian garrison in Ardahan.\u201d<\/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>A skeleton thought to belong to a 19th century Russian soldier has been found by builders in northeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,74,173],"tags":[77182],"class_list":["post-58777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-turkey-headlines","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58777","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=58777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}