{"id":63541,"date":"2019-04-12T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=63541"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:59:08","slug":"turkish-football-legend-can-bartu-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-football-legend-can-bartu-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish football legend Can Bartu dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Can Bartu, a legendary figure in Turkish football and at Istanbul giants Fenerbahce, died at the age of 83, the club announced early Friday on its website.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;We are experiencing the deep pain and sorrow of this great loss,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The club also wished him God&#8217;s mercy and extended condolences to his family, fans and the entire sports community.<\/p>\n<p>Bartu, born on Jan. 31, 1936 in Istanbul, played both basketball and football for the club and was also known as &#8220;Sinyor&#8221;. He later became a sports journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoglu expressed his sadness on Twitter over the death of a &#8220;legendary figure of Turkish sports and Fenerbahce&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kasapoglu also wished God&#8217;s mercy on Bartu and extended condolences to his family and fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will never forget you, Sinyor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Istanbul football giants Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Besiktas also shared messages of condolence on social media.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Bartu, a legendary figure in Turkish football and at Istanbul giants Fenerbahce, died at the age of 83, the club announced early Friday on its website. &#8220;We are experiencing the deep pain and sorrow of this great loss,&#8221; it said. The club also wished him God&#8217;s mercy and extended condolences to his family, fans &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,118,127],"tags":[1700,483,52821,2481],"class_list":["post-63541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-sport","tag-besiktas","tag-fenerbahce","tag-turkey-twitter","tag-turkish-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63541","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=63541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78406,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63541\/revisions\/78406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}