{"id":3711,"date":"2008-09-07T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/07\/football-feed-article-football-guardiancouk\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:08:15","slug":"football-feed-article-football-guardiancouk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/07\/football-feed-article-football-guardiancouk\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s Gul sees hope beyond Armenia soccer match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters, Saturday September 6 2008 By Paul de Bendern<\/p>\n<p>ANKARA, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkish President Abdullah Gul expressed hope on Saturday that a landmark soccer match between Turkey and Armenia would aid a &#8220;rapprochement&#8221; of neighbouring nations at odds for nearly 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Gul spoke on departure for Yerevan, where he will attend Saturday evening&#8217;s World Cup qualifier at the Hrazdan stadium and become the first Turkish leader to step foot in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This match is important beyond being the first match between the Turkish and Armenian national teams,&#8221; he told a news conference. &#8220;It has a significance that will present important opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/football\/feedarticle\/7778962\">Football Feed Article | Football | guardian.co.uk<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters, Saturday September 6 2008 By Paul de Bendern ANKARA, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkish President Abdullah Gul expressed hope on Saturday that a landmark soccer match between Turkey and Armenia would aid a &#8220;rapprochement&#8221; of neighbouring nations at odds for nearly 100 years. Gul spoke on departure for Yerevan, where he will attend Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","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=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}