{"id":25759,"date":"2010-11-15T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=25759"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:10:28","slug":"synagogue-victims-to-be-remembered-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/15\/synagogue-victims-to-be-remembered-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Synagogue victims to be remembered in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victims of a terrorist attack on Istanbul&#8217;s Beth Israel Synagogue seven years ago will be commemorated Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25762\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25762\" title=\"Rescue workers are seen in front of Neve Shalom Synagogue after the car bomb explosion 15 Nov. 2003. AFP photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/synagogue-victims.jpg\" alt=\"Rescue workers are seen in front of Neve Shalom Synagogue after the car bomb explosion 15 Nov. 2003. AFP photo\" width=\"414\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/synagogue-victims.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/synagogue-victims-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescue workers are seen in front of Neve Shalom Synagogue after the car bomb explosion 15 Nov. 2003. AFP photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u015ei\u015fli District Gov. Mehmet \u00d6kl\u00fc, \u015ei\u015fli Municipality Mayor Mustafa Sar\u0131g\u00fcl and \u015ei\u015fli Mufti Ahmet T\u00fcccar, who is the chief rabbi\u2019s representative, will participate in the commemoration on \u015ei\u015fli Nakiye Elg\u00fcn Street, starting at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>After Jewish and Islamic prayers are performed, red carnations will be left in memory of those who died in the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The Nov. 15, 2003, suicide bombings also targeted the Neve Shalom synagogue and two more attacks were launched five days later \u2013 against the British Consulate and the local headquarters of the HSBC bank. A total of 58 people died, along with the four suicide bombers.<\/p>\n<p>The blast in Istanbul\u2019s Levent district happened in front of the HSBC bank around 10:55 a.m. and turned the building into ruins. Numerous pedestrians passing in front the bank were injured and 11 people died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Targeting the British Consulate, the second bomb exploded in Istanbul\u2019s Beyo\u011flu district, 10 minutes later. After the consulate\u2019s front garden wall collapsed, a fire broke out inside the garden. In the attack, terrorists killed 16 people including\u00a0Consul\u00a0General Roger Short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims of a terrorist attack on Istanbul&#8217;s Beth Israel Synagogue seven years ago will be commemorated Monday. \u015ei\u015fli District Gov. Mehmet \u00d6kl\u00fc, \u015ei\u015fli Municipality Mayor Mustafa Sar\u0131g\u00fcl and \u015ei\u015fli Mufti Ahmet T\u00fcccar, who is the chief rabbi\u2019s representative, will participate in the commemoration on \u015ei\u015fli Nakiye Elg\u00fcn Street, starting at 10 a.m. After Jewish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":25762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4296],"class_list":["post-25759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-neve-shalom-synagogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25759","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=25759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}