{"id":35653,"date":"2011-06-15T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=35653"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:46:22","slug":"wikileaks-assange-to-travel-to-turkey-for-media-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/15\/wikileaks-assange-to-travel-to-turkey-for-media-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks&#8217; Assange to travel to Turkey for media conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will travel to Turkey this October to deliver a speech during the \u201cNew Media Order Conference\u201d to be held in \u0130stanbul, news reports said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35655\" title=\"assange-in-turkey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/assange-in-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/assange-in-turkey.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/assange-in-turkey-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Assange will deliver a speech at the conference, scheduled to be held at the L\u00fctf\u00fc K\u0131rdar Convention Center in \u0130stanbul. The conference will also host Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of the Wikimedia Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Wales will give a speech on the topic of the democratization of knowledge. The conference is slated for Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks and Assange sparked an international uproar last year when it published a secret helicopter video showing a US attack that killed two Reuters journalists in Baghdad. It went on to release hundreds of thousands of secret US military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it later began publishing classified US diplomatic cables whose revelations angered and embarrassed the US and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>The furor made Assange, 39, a global celebrity. The nomadic Australian was arrested in London in December after Sweden issued a warrant on rape and molestation accusations. He was later released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will travel to Turkey this October to deliver a speech during the \u201cNew Media Order Conference\u201d to be held in \u0130stanbul, news reports said on Tuesday. Assange will deliver a speech at the conference, scheduled to be held at the L\u00fctf\u00fc K\u0131rdar Convention Center in \u0130stanbul. The conference will also host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":35655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4768,4540],"class_list":["post-35653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-assange","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35653","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=35653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}