{"id":66668,"date":"2013-02-27T12:55:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T10:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=66668"},"modified":"2023-04-04T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T04:15:56","slug":"euro-2020-not-on-turkeys-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/02\/27\/euro-2020-not-on-turkeys-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2020 not on Turkey\u2019s agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main-head\">\n<div><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?attachment_id=66669\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66669\" alt=\"phpThumb_generated_thumbnailjpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/phpThumb_generated_thumbnailjpg.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/phpThumb_generated_thumbnailjpg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/phpThumb_generated_thumbnailjpg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The comments were made after UEFA president Michel Platini said he wanted the semi-finals and final to be held in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very clear we are just for the Olympic Games,\u201d Hasan Arat told reporters after the Frenchman\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no official interest and these comments come from UEFA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turkey had been favourites to host Euro 2020 before the football governing body decided the tournament would be spread across \u201912 or 13 European cities\u2019 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not allow a country to host two major sporting events within the same year, and as such Arat confirmed he will advise the IOC evaluation committee that Turkey\u2019s sole focus would be on the Olympics rather than the Euros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very clear we are just for the Olympic Games. There is no other agenda, this is our number one agenda and that\u2019s what we will tell the evaluation committee,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sportsmax_fly_position\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comments were made after UEFA president Michel Platini said he wanted the semi-finals and final to be held in Turkey. \u201cI think it\u2019s very clear we are just for the Olympic Games,\u201d Hasan Arat told reporters after the Frenchman\u2019s comments. \u201cThere is no official interest and these comments come from UEFA.\u201d Turkey had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":66669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[8146,8087],"class_list":["post-66668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-euro-2020","tag-platini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66668","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=66668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}