{"id":601,"date":"2008-07-10T11:17:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T08:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=601"},"modified":"2014-01-01T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:54:52","slug":"ataturk-veneration-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/10\/ataturk-veneration-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Ataturk veneration challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nationalists and Islamists pursued by prosecutors<\/h2>\n<h3>Nicholas Birch THE WASHINGTON TIMES<br \/>\nThursday, July 10, 2008<\/h3>\n<p>ISTANBUL | In a contest for the affections of schoolchildren in their respective countries, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln would have a tough time competing with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Every school in Turkey has what is called an Ataturk corner, including a bust and list of his accomplishments. Excerpts from Ataturk speeches are part of every public building. His mausoleum in Ankara is a national shrine, and his image appears as a shadow on one mountain twice each summer, a few days before and after the spring equinox.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Ataturk helped inspire Osama bin Laden, whose primary goal is to restore the position of caliph, or Muslim leader, that Ataturk abolished in 1924.<\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalists and Islamists pursued by prosecutors Nicholas Birch THE WASHINGTON TIMES Thursday, July 10, 2008 ISTANBUL | In a contest for the affections of schoolchildren in their respective countries, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln would have a tough time competing with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Every school in Turkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4259],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ataturk-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}