{"id":53647,"date":"2012-05-16T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=53647"},"modified":"2012-05-16T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T20:22:44","slug":"swedish-diplomat-faces-charges-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/05\/16\/swedish-diplomat-faces-charges-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish diplomat faces charges in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 13 (UPI) &#8212; A Swedish diplomat caught with a small piece of marble in his suitcase as he prepared to fly home after a vacation could be imprisoned in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities say the marble dates from ancient times, making it a historical artifact, The Local reported. It was about 10 centimeters or less than 4 inches in length.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s wife told Expressen, a Swedish national newspaper, she and her husband were never told that pieces of stone were relics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is ludicrous. We had no idea that you couldn&#8217;t take stones home as souvenirs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know now what will happen, or how long we&#8217;ll have to wait for a decision, but this is a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man, who currently is based at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm, has not yet been formally charged. He remains in custody in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>via Swedish diplomat faces charges in Turkey &#8211; UPI.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 13 (UPI) &#8212; A Swedish diplomat caught with a small piece of marble in his suitcase as he prepared to fly home after a vacation could be imprisoned in Turkey. Turkish authorities say the marble dates from ancient times, making it a historical artifact, The Local reported. It was about 10 centimeters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502],"tags":[5651],"class_list":["post-53647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sweden","tag-antiquities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647","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=53647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}