{"id":616,"date":"2008-07-10T19:31:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=616"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:23:30","slug":"luxury-hotel-amid-byzantine-ruins-stirs-debate-over-turkeys-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/10\/luxury-hotel-amid-byzantine-ruins-stirs-debate-over-turkeys-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"luxury hotel amid Byzantine ruins stirs debate over Turkey&#8217;s heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Istanbul, luxury hotel amid Byzantine ruins stirs debate over Turkey&#8217;s\u00a0heritage<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL, Turkey:<\/strong> Most tourists to Istanbul inevitably make their way to its historic core along the Golden Horn, a peninsula rich in relics and monuments from the mighty Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman\u00a0empires.<\/p>\n<p>These days, the area is host to a modern-day battle over the expansion of a five-star hotel amid the ruins of an ancient\u00a0palace.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute pits government-backed developers of a site housing the luxury Four Seasons Hotel, occupying a converted, Ottoman-era prison, against critics who say work on a 60-room annex desecrate the remnants of a palace built by Constantine the Great in the fourth\u00a0century.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/07\/10\/europe\/EU-Turkey-Palace-Dispute.php\">Read full story&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Istanbul, luxury hotel amid Byzantine ruins stirs debate over Turkey&#8217;s\u00a0heritage ISTANBUL, Turkey: Most tourists to Istanbul inevitably make their way to its historic core along the Golden Horn, a peninsula rich in relics and monuments from the mighty Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman\u00a0empires. These days, the area is host to a modern-day battle over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/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=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}