{"id":64998,"date":"2020-03-04T07:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=64998"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:53:03","slug":"turkey-rescues-78-migrants-from-boats-off-aegean-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-rescues-78-migrants-from-boats-off-aegean-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey rescues 78 migrants from boats off Aegean coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A total of 78 irregular migrants were rescued off Turkey\u2019s Aegean coast, sources said Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>Coast Guard teams launched an operation and rescued 40 Afghan migrants who were in a rubber boat which had been directed to Turkish territorial waters by the Greek Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Coast Guard teams also rescued 38 irregular migrants from a boat drifting off the Aegean coast.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has been a key transit point for irregular migrants aiming to cross into Europe to start new lives, especially those fleeing war and persecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 78 irregular migrants were rescued off Turkey\u2019s Aegean coast, sources said Wednesday. Coast Guard teams launched an operation and rescued 40 Afghan migrants who were in a rubber boat which had been directed to Turkish territorial waters by the Greek Coast Guard. Separately, Coast Guard teams also rescued 38 irregular migrants from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,895,37,103,174,194,173,1165,188],"tags":[11366,78007,77182],"class_list":["post-64998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-life","category-middle-east","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-life","category-turkey-politics","tag-aegean-sea","tag-migrants","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64998","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=64998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}