{"id":36170,"date":"2011-06-20T07:14:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T04:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=36170"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:51:15","slug":"real-madrid-star-cristiano-ronaldo-rocks-istanbuls-beyoglu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/20\/real-madrid-star-cristiano-ronaldo-rocks-istanbuls-beyoglu\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World-famous soccer player of Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team, Cristiano Ronaldo and his girl friend Irina Shayk were in \u0130stanbul on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36172\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36172\" title=\"ronaldo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ronaldo.jpg\" alt=\"Cristiano Ronaldo, was in \u0130stanbul on Saturday as the guest of Be\u015fikta\u015f Chairman Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m Demir\u00f6ren, drawing a huge crowd to \u0130stikal Street in Taksim, where he attended the inauguration ceremony of a shopping mall owned by Demir\u00f6ren.\" width=\"614\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ronaldo.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ronaldo-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristiano Ronaldo, was in \u0130stanbul on Saturday as the guest of Be\u015fikta\u015f Chairman Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m Demir\u00f6ren, drawing a huge crowd to \u0130stikal Street in Taksim, where he attended the inauguration ceremony of a shopping mall owned by Demir\u00f6ren.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo, was in \u0130stanbul on Saturday as the guest of Be\u015fikta\u015f  Chairman Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m Demir\u00f6ren, drawing a huge crowd to \u0130stikal Street in  Taksim, where he attended the inauguration ceremony of a shopping mall  owned by Demir\u00f6ren.<\/p>\n<p>They landed at \u0130stanbul Atat\u00fcrk Airport early Saturday and were then  transferred to their accommodations at the \u00c7\u0131ra\u011fan Kempisnki Hotel by  helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo arrived at a shopping mall located along \u0130stiklal Street later to sign autographs. However the session was cancelled. The player instead addressed the crowd from the balcony of a caf\u00e9 in the shopping mall. \u201cI love you all. I am very happy to be here in Turkey. I thank everyone who came here for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to questions from reporters after his address, Ronaldo said he was pleased to see that such a crowd gathered for him. When asked whether he wants to play for a Turkish team, he said there are many years ahead of him and he cannot guess what might happen.<\/p>\n<p>The trams running along \u0130stiklal Street were forced to come to a halt due to the crowds, and some shop owners had to close their shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-famous soccer player of Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team, Cristiano Ronaldo and his girl friend Irina Shayk were in \u0130stanbul on Saturday. Cristiano Ronaldo, was in \u0130stanbul on Saturday as the guest of Be\u015fikta\u015f Chairman Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m Demir\u00f6ren, drawing a huge crowd to \u0130stikal Street in Taksim, where he attended the inauguration ceremony of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":36172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[5938],"class_list":["post-36170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-ronaldo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36170","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=36170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}