{"id":70188,"date":"2013-05-02T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=70188"},"modified":"2023-04-30T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T10:40:56","slug":"turkey-accepts-tokyos-apology-on-istanbuls-olympic-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/05\/02\/turkey-accepts-tokyos-apology-on-istanbuls-olympic-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey accepts Tokyo&#8217;s apology on Istanbul&#8217;s Olympic bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, May 1 (Xinhua) &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s sports minister has accepted the apology from the governor of Tokyo for criticizing Istanbul&#8217;s bid for the 2020 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Suat Kilic said on Wednesday &#8220;we now wish for a friendly competition between the candidate cities abiding by the criteria established by the International Olympic Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose apologized Tuesday after he said &#8220;Islamic countries, the only thing they share in common is Allah and they are fighting with each other&#8221; in an interview by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>His controversial remarks soon prompted criticism in Turkey and the International Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo is competing with Istanbul and Madrid to hold the Olympics for a second time after becoming the first Asian city to host the Games in 1964. Istanbul is bidding for a fifth time after its previous campaigns were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts for the 2020 Games will be decided at the next IOC Session in Argentina in September.<\/p>\n<p>Editor: yan<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey accepts Tokyo&#8217;s apology on Istanbul&#8217;s Olympic bid &#8211; Xinhua | English.news.cn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, May 1 (Xinhua) &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s sports minister has accepted the apology from the governor of Tokyo for criticizing Istanbul&#8217;s bid for the 2020 Olympics. Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Suat Kilic said on Wednesday &#8220;we now wish for a friendly competition between the candidate cities abiding by the criteria established by the International Olympic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[5634,102],"class_list":["post-70188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-2020-olympics","tag-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70188","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=70188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}