{"id":26093,"date":"2010-11-18T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=26093"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:31:22","slug":"istanbul-declared-europe-sports-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/18\/istanbul-declared-europe-sports-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul declared Europe sports capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ist_spor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"78\" \/>Ankara (UNN) This ancient city was declared the 2012 European Capital of Sports here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>European Capitals of Sport Association (ACES) President Gian Francesco Lupatelli during a news conference at the city air facility, Ataturk Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Lupatelli and an ACES committee surveyed various locations in the city, last week, before unanimously deciding on Istanbul as the 2012 capital.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, State Minister and Chief EU accession negotiator Egemen Bagis said this decision showed Turkey became &#8220;a very important actor of Europe.&#8221; This is the first time a Turkish city has been declared a European sports capital.\/UNN<\/p>\n<p>17th Nov 2010, 03:28 am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara (UNN) This ancient city was declared the 2012 European Capital of Sports here on Sunday. European Capitals of Sport Association (ACES) President Gian Francesco Lupatelli during a news conference at the city air facility, Ataturk Airport. Lupatelli and an ACES committee surveyed various locations in the city, last week, before unanimously deciding on Istanbul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":26096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[4379,4380],"class_list":["post-26093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-aces","tag-european-capital-of-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26093","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=26093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}