{"id":59310,"date":"2017-08-30T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59310"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:50:55","slug":"turkey-celebrates-95th-anniversary-of-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-celebrates-95th-anniversary-of-victory-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey celebrates 95th anniversary of Victory Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey marked the anniversary of a decisive battle in the War of Independence on Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>Victory Day, which commemorates the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922 against Greek forces, saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, senior officials and high-ranking military staff lay a wreath at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Turkey\u2019s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on a hill overlooking Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This historic victory, which is the herald for the success of our War of Independence, is a very important part of the struggle that starts with Malazgirt [Battle],&#8221; Erdogan said after writing in the An\u0131tkabir memorial book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue protecting our homeland entrusted us by you, our beloved martyrs and veterans at the cost of our lives,\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<p>The civilians were also allowed to attend the official ceremony, during which security measures were enhanced.<\/p>\n<p>Anadolu Agency<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey marked the anniversary of a decisive battle in the War of Independence on Wednesday. Victory Day, which commemorates the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922 against Greek forces, saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, senior officials and high-ranking military staff lay a wreath at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Turkey\u2019s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on a hill &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,895,174,194,1165],"tags":[77641,1153,51261],"class_list":["post-59310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-life","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-life","tag-independence","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-victory-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59310","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=59310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}