{"id":59953,"date":"2018-02-05T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59953"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:36:04","slug":"president-erdogan-meets-pope-francis-in-vatican-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/president-erdogan-meets-pope-francis-in-vatican-city\/","title":{"rendered":"President Erdogan meets Pope Francis in Vatican City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkish president began his two-day visit to the Vatican City Monday that saw him being welcomed with an official ceremony at the Apostol Palace.<\/h2>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and First Lady Emine Erdogan were initially received by Archbishop Georg Ganswein at the San Damaso Courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>Following the official ceremony, Erdogan was welcomed by Pope Francis ahead of their one-on-one meeting at the doorsteps of Apostol Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The pope said &#8220;Buongiorno&#8221; to the Turkish president to which he responded with &#8220;how are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan also expressed his gratitude for the welcome while the pope thanked the Turkish president for the official visit.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders later went for a closed-door meeting at the Apostol Palace&#8217;s Library Hall.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish president began his two-day visit to the Vatican City Monday that saw him being welcomed with an official ceremony at the Apostol Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,101],"tags":[47990,1153,6003],"class_list":["post-59953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-politics","tag-pope-francis","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59953","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=59953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}