{"id":65622,"date":"2020-04-29T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=65622"},"modified":"2020-04-29T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T10:05:14","slug":"turkeys-vice-president-slams-ypg-pkk-attack-in-afrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkeys-vice-president-slams-ypg-pkk-attack-in-afrin\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s vice president slams YPG\/PKK attack in Afrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay on Tuesday condemned a terrorist attack by the YPG\/PKK in Afrin, northwestern Syria that killed dozens of civilians, including children.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I condemn the heinous terrorist attack on this holy day of Ramadan. I wish Allah&#8217;s mercy upon the martyrs and a quick recovery for those wounded. Innocent civilians&#8217; and children&#8217;s blood is on the hands of those who support, remain silent in the face of actions of this terrorist organization,&#8221; he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, at least 40 civilians, including 11 children, were killed in the attack in the region of Syria near Turkey\u2019s border, according to Turkey&#8217;s Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>At least 47 others were wounded in Afrin&#8217;s city center in the attack, which was carried out using a bomb-rigged fuel tanker.<\/p>\n<p>In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK &#8212; listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and European Union &#8212; has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. The YPG is the PKK\u2019s Syrian offshoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay on Tuesday condemned a terrorist attack by the YPG\/PKK in Afrin, northwestern Syria that killed dozens of civilians, including children. &#8220;I condemn the heinous terrorist attack on this holy day of Ramadan. I wish Allah&#8217;s mercy upon the martyrs and a quick recovery for those wounded. Innocent civilians&#8217; and children&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,101,194,188],"tags":[77862,78209],"class_list":["post-65622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","tag-afrin-operation","tag-fuat-oktay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65622","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=65622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}