{"id":50676,"date":"2012-02-05T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50676"},"modified":"2012-09-12T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:16:53","slug":"turkey-gives-prophet-mohammads-hairs-to-chechnya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/05\/turkey-gives-prophet-mohammads-hairs-to-chechnya\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey gives Prophet Mohammad&#8217;s hairs to Chechnya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grozny, February 3, Interfax &#8211; Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has given three hairs of Prophet Mohammad to the Chechen Republic. The hairs were taken from Istanbul to Grozny on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chechen diaspora in Turkey asked Erdogan to give the holy hairs to Chechnya. We received a positive response within a month and the priceless gift has been delivered to Grozny today,&#8221; Aihan Ergyuven, chairman of the Chechen committee Sivas, told reporters at the Grozny airport.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the cold weather, thousands of Chechens, including Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, met the hairs at the Grozny airports and in the city&#8217;s streets.<\/p>\n<p>A religious ritual marking this event was held in the republic&#8217;s central mosque.<\/p>\n<p>According to earlier reports, a different hair of Prophet Mohammad was taken from Uzbekistan to Chechnya on January 26, 2011. The hair is a capsule, which is located in a box. According to historical documents, the hair, which was taken to the Grozny central mosque, had been in Uzbekistan since the times of the Caliphate.<\/p>\n<p>via Interfax-Religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grozny, February 3, Interfax &#8211; Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has given three hairs of Prophet Mohammad to the Chechen Republic. The hairs were taken from Istanbul to Grozny on Thursday. &#8220;The Chechen diaspora in Turkey asked Erdogan to give the holy hairs to Chechnya. We received a positive response within a month and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":38128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,764],"tags":[5079,2830,7928,7314],"class_list":["post-50676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-uzbekistan","tag-caliphate","tag-chechnya","tag-grozny","tag-prophet-muhammad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50676","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=50676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}