{"id":137032,"date":"2011-10-26T14:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=137032"},"modified":"2011-10-26T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:30:53","slug":"riot-erupts-in-turkey-quake-stricken-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/26\/riot-erupts-in-turkey-quake-stricken-jail.html","title":{"rendered":"Riot Erupts in Turkey Quake-Stricken Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A riot erupted at a jail in Turkey&#8217;s quake-stricken Van province after authorities refused to transfer frightened prisoners to a safer place, relatives told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p>Shots rang out from the complex, and smoke billowed into the night sky after prisoners set fire to their blankets in protest, the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=riot-erupts-in-turkish-quake-stricken-prison-2011-10-26\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hurriyet Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called in to put out the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The prison, which can hold around 1,000 detainees, was damaged in Sunday&#8217;s 7.2 magnitude earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives gathered outside the jail shouting &#8220;Erdogan &#8211; assassin&#8221; in reference to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is located in the suburbs of Van, capital of the province of the same name where at least 459 people have died in the quake.<\/p>\n<p>Some 200 prisoners escaped from the jail after the tremor, but 50 returned after meeting with their relatives, authorities said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots rang out from a  jail in Turkey&#8217;s quake-stricken Van province, and smoke billowed into the night sky after prisoners set fire to their blankets in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10223,33748,33749,13651,33643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}