{"id":46699,"date":"2011-11-15T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T08:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=46699"},"modified":"2014-01-06T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:53:20","slug":"islamic-social-networking-site-to-launch-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/11\/15\/islamic-social-networking-site-to-launch-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic social networking site to launch in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46702\" title=\"260803-01-02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/260803-01-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/260803-01-02.jpg 536w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/260803-01-02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photographed by AFP<\/p>\n<p>Archived<\/p>\n<p>A new, Islamic social networking website is set to launch in Istanbul, Turkey. It is funded by prominent Muslim businessmen, according to Hurriyet Daily News, a Turkish newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No politics, no bans, no limits,\u201d reads the motto of the website, which the newspaper says will be streamed in 15 languages.<\/p>\n<p>Salam World is owned by Russians and Turks who plan to invest US$15 million to open branches in 16 countries with large Muslim populations, according to asiancorrespondent.com, an Indonesian tech-blog, which revealed that the new website will have an office in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hurriyet, SalamWorld will also open branches in Cairo, London, Moscow, Dubai and New York.<\/p>\n<p>SalamWorld (Arabic for \u2018&#8221;hello world&#8221;) is not the first attempt to establish an Islamic website that would compete with social networking giant Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, a group of Pakistanis established millatfacebook.com. The initiative came in response to an offending Facebook page that had enraged Muslim users by running a competition for cartoons mocking Prophet Mohamed. The page prompted Pakistani authorities to temporarily block access to website in the country.<\/p>\n<p>via Islamic social networking site to launch in Istanbul | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today&#8217;s News from Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographed by AFP Archived A new, Islamic social networking website is set to launch in Istanbul, Turkey. It is funded by prominent Muslim businessmen, according to Hurriyet Daily News, a Turkish newspaper. &#8220;No politics, no bans, no limits,\u201d reads the motto of the website, which the newspaper says will be streamed in 15 languages. Salam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[717,7479],"class_list":["post-46699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-facebook","tag-salamworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699","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=46699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}