{"id":25610,"date":"2010-11-13T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=25610"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:06:41","slug":"turkeys-highest-religious-leader-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/13\/turkeys-highest-religious-leader-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s highest religious leader replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Published on:<\/strong> Friday 12 Nov 2010, 10:27 by\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.journalistinturkey.com\/author\/admin\/\">Fr\u00e9derike Geerdink<\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong>Written for:<\/strong> ANP news agency<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><strong>ISTANBUL \u2013 Ali Bardakoglu, president of the Turkish Directorate for Religious Affairs, Diyanet, was unexpectedly replaced Thursday by his deputy, Mehmet G\u00f6rmez. There is wide speculation in Turkish newspapers about the reason for Bardakoglu\u2019s dismissal. The Turkish government has stated that Bardakoglu\u2019s term of leadership had lasted long enough, Bardakoglu says it was his choice to retire.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div>Read full story &gt;&gt;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on: Friday 12 Nov 2010, 10:27 by\u00a0Fr\u00e9derike Geerdink Written for: ANP news agency ISTANBUL \u2013 Ali Bardakoglu, president of the Turkish Directorate for Religious Affairs, Diyanet, was unexpectedly replaced Thursday by his deputy, Mehmet G\u00f6rmez. There is wide speculation in Turkish newspapers about the reason for Bardakoglu\u2019s dismissal. The Turkish government has stated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":35085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4269],"class_list":["post-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-bardakoglu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","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=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}