{"id":155377,"date":"2012-01-20T15:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=155377"},"modified":"2012-01-20T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:57:36","slug":"turkey-prime-minister-erdo%c4%9fan-says-he-doesnt-have-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/20\/turkey-prime-minister-erdo%c4%9fan-says-he-doesnt-have-cancer.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Prime Minister Erdo\u011fan Says He Doesn&#8217;t have Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has categorically denied speculations that he has cancer during an interview with a journalist, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/news-269077-.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran journalist Mehmet Ali Birand, who had an interview with Erdo\u011fan for a documentary on the Feb. 28, 1997 postmodern coup, on Thursday broadcast parts of the interview during which the two discussed issues currently dominating Turkey&#8217;s agenda. Erdo\u011fan said no in response to a question from Birand asking, \u201cDo you have cancer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan, 57, underwent abdominal surgery on Nov. 26 and had rested out of the public eye for more than a month after the operation. Speculation emerged after the operation that the prime minister had cancer but was keeping it secret.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mehmet F\u00fcz\u00fcn, who was among the doctors who performed laparoscopic surgery on Erdo\u011fan, also dismissed claims of cancer last month, saying polyps had been found in Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s intestinal tract and that they were not malignant. \u201cI was also present during the surgery as an expert on colon and rectal surgery. The intestinal polyps we removed during the operation were big, but not malignant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Birand, who has recently been treated for cancer, said he knows well whether a person is receiving chemotherapy or not as someone who has gone through such an experience. \u201cI looked and understood. He is not receiving chemotherapy,\u201d Birand 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>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has categorically denied speculations that he has cancer during an interview with veteran journalist&#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":147424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12828,37139,10426,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155377"}],"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=155377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}