{"id":53240,"date":"2012-05-05T14:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T11:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=53240"},"modified":"2023-04-06T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:33:09","slug":"economy-puts-istanbul-in-olympics-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/05\/05\/economy-puts-istanbul-in-olympics-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy puts Istanbul in Olympics race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey hopes its 8% economic growth rate will help it fend off competitors for hosting the 2020 Games.<\/p>\n<p>The London Olympics may be just a couple of months away now, but already the race to host the 2020 Games is heating up.<\/p>\n<p>After four failed bids, Turkey is hoping its economic growth rate of eight per cent will propel Istanbul to be the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Despite stiff competition from four other cities, including Tokyo and Madrid, Turkey hopes being the fastest growing European economy will help it secure the Games this time round.<\/p>\n<p>Still, some in Turkey say that with one in five out of the nation&#8217;s 74 million people living below the poverty line, there are better ways to spend the money for the Olympic bid.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Joanna Gasiorowska reports from Istanbul on what Turkey is doing to fend off competition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N7RCUJ0TwhI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via Economy puts Istanbul in Olympics race &#8211; Europe &#8211; Al Jazeera English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey hopes its 8% economic growth rate will help it fend off competitors for hosting the 2020 Games. The London Olympics may be just a couple of months away now, but already the race to host the 2020 Games is heating up. After four failed bids, Turkey is hoping its economic growth rate of eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[5634],"class_list":["post-53240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-2020-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53240","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=53240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}