{"id":62325,"date":"2019-01-22T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=62325"},"modified":"2019-03-30T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:00:00","slug":"turkish-president-us-senator-see-famed-pianist-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-president-us-senator-see-famed-pianist-perform\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish president, US senator see famed pianist perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A weekend concert by famed Turkish pianist Fazil Say in the Turkish capital Ankara had the distinguished audience of the nation\u2019s president and a visiting U.S. senator.<\/h2>\n<p>Say\u2019s Friday performance of the Troy Sonata and other pieces was met with a standing ovation and praise from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who lauded Say\u2019s \u201cgenuinely unique performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saying he hoped to see the pianist perform more concerts in Ankara and Istanbul, Erdogan presented Say with a record from Asik Veysel, a famous Turkish folk musician and poet.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Erdogan on Saturday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham described Say\u2019s concert as \u201cone of the greatest experiences\u201d of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Graham had been specially invited to the event by the president.<\/p>\n<p>Several other luminaries also attended the concert, including first lady Emine Erdogan, Vice President Fuat Oktay, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, and presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekend concert by famed Turkish pianist Fazil Say in the Turkish capital Ankara had the distinguished audience of the nation\u2019s president and a visiting U.S. senator. Say\u2019s Friday performance of the Troy Sonata and other pieces was met with a standing ovation and praise from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who lauded Say\u2019s \u201cgenuinely unique &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,80,74,63,1,103],"tags":[7618,78348,22488,77855,77679,1153,22497],"class_list":["post-62325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artistry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-general","category-only-on-nationalturk","tag-ankara","tag-defense-minister-hulusi-akar","tag-fazil-say","tag-ibrahim-kalin","tag-mevlut-cavusoglu","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkish-pianist-fazil-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62325","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=62325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}