{"id":20696,"date":"2010-07-13T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20696"},"modified":"2013-10-13T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T06:58:30","slug":"after-canceling-concert-lopez-faces-possible-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/07\/13\/after-canceling-concert-lopez-faces-possible-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"After Canceling Concert, Lopez Faces Possible Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hotel in Cyprus said it might sue\u00a0<strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/l\/jennifer_lopez\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Jennifer Lopez<\/span><\/strong>, below,<strong> <\/strong>after the singer withdrew from a scheduled concert for fear that it would be construed as making a political statement, Agence France-Presse reported. Ms. Lopez was to perform at the Cratos Premium hotel and casino complex in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus on July 24, an event that Greek Cypriots have said would further polarize the country, which has been divided since the 1970s and whose northern region is recognized only by Turkey. Ms. Lopez\u2019s representatives said last week that she would not perform the concert, citing \u201csensitivity to the political realities of the region.\u201d But\u00a0<strong>Murat Bozoglu<\/strong>, chief executive of the company that runs Cratos Premium, told Agence France-Presse that Ms. Lopez\u2019s contract for the show had not been canceled. \u201cIf she does not show up for the concert, we will begin a procedure in the courts to claim $35 to $40 million in damages,\u201d Mr. Bozoglu said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/13\/arts\/music\/13arts-AFTERCANCELI_BRF.html?_r=1\">The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hotel in Cyprus said it might sue\u00a0Jennifer Lopez, below, after the singer withdrew from a scheduled concert for fear that it would be construed as making a political statement, Agence France-Presse reported. Ms. Lopez was to perform at the Cratos Premium hotel and casino complex in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus on July 24, an event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939,211,34,922],"tags":[3256,3276],"class_list":["post-20696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","category-cyprus-trnc","category-usa","category-world","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-murat-bozoglu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}