{"id":58268,"date":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/11\/14\/istanbul-explosion-turkeys-erdogan-condemns-vile-attack-says-six-dead\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"istanbul-explosion-turkeys-erdogan-condemns-vile-attack-says-six-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/11\/14\/istanbul-explosion-turkeys-erdogan-condemns-vile-attack-says-six-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul explosion: Turkey&#8217;s Erdogan condemns &#8216;vile attack&#8217;, says six dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday condemned the &quot;vile attack&quot; that ripped through central Istanbul, and which he said killed six people and wounded dozens of others.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The relevant units of our state are working to find the perpetrators&hellip; behind this vile attack,&quot; Erdogan told a televised press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He also said initial signs pointed to a &quot;terror&quot; attack in the explosion in Istanbul which wounded 53 others.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It might be wrong if we say for sure that this is terror but according to first signs&#8230; there is a smell of terror there,&quot; Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The attempt to take over Turkey and the Turkish nation through terrorism will not reach its goal today or tomorrow,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred at around 4:20pm (1320 GMT) in the famous Istiklal shopping street which is popular with locals and tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said initial signs pointed to a &#8216;terror&#8217; attack in the explosion in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}