{"id":9161,"date":"2010-11-29T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2010-11-29T20:07:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T17:07:05","slug":"fire-istanbul-main-train-station-291110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/fire-istanbul-main-train-station-291110\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Istanbul&#8217;s Main Train Station under Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/haydarpasa-gar-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9162\" title=\"Fire at Istanbul's Main Train Station under Control \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/haydarpasa-gar-fire-280x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/haydarpasa-gar-fire-280x185.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/haydarpasa-gar-fire-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/haydarpasa-gar-fire.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>A fire that raged in the roof of a major train station on the Asian side of Istanbul on Sunday was taken under control, officials said.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fire broke out on the roof of historic Haydarpasa train station in Turkey\u2019s largest city at around 3.30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, there are no casualties,\u201d Istanbul governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu told reporters. But it is sad that such a historic building has been damaged, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of firefighters battled the blazes that completely engulfed the roof of the station. The blazes destroyed the roof, sending a black cloud of smoke billowing across the city before fire fighters doused it from land and sea.<\/p>\n<p>A witness said there was repair works on the roof before the fire broke out.<\/p>\n<p>The Haydarpasa Station is a major intercity rail station and transportation hub in Istanbul. It is the busiest rail terminal in Turkey and the Middle East and one of the busiest in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1909 by German architects, the station is among the landmarks of the city and is still regarded as a historical monument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire at Istanbul&#8217;s Main Train Station under Control <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,194,1165],"tags":[13229,13227,13228,13231,13230],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-life","tag-haydarpasa-station-fire","tag-haydarpasa-train-station","tag-haydarpasa-train-station-fire","tag-huseyin-avni-mutlu","tag-istanbul-haydarpasa-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}