{"id":157355,"date":"2012-01-30T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=157355"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:11:40","slug":"turkeys-first-miss-world-dies-at-age-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/30\/turkeys-first-miss-world-dies-at-age-99.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s First &#8216;Miss World&#8217; Dies at Age 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keriman Halis Ece Tamer, who became Turkey\u2019s first Miss World in 1932, died due to heart failure on Jan. 28, nineteen days shy of her 99th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Tamer, who died in the house of her daughter in Istanbul\u2019s Bebek, will be buried today, the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/turkeys-first-miss-world-dies-at-age-99.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=12575&amp;NewsCatID=376\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hurriyet Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a letter of condolence, Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl expressed his deep sadness, saying: \u201cTamer, who successfully represented our country abroad and was honored with the surname \u2018Ece\u2019 [queen] by the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, will be always remembered with respect. I extend my condolences to her family and the Turkish public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tamer beat out seven other candidates at the Miss Turkey beauty pageant on July 2, 1932, allowing her to advance to represent the country at the International Pageant of Pulchritude contest held in Spa, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>On July 31, 1932, she was crowned Miss World despite competition from 27 countries, winning Turkey\u2019s first title at an international beauty contest just three years after her nation started holding such competitions.<\/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>Keriman Halis Ece Tamer, who became Turkey\u2019s first Miss World in 1932, died due to heart failure on Jan. 28, nineteen days shy of her 99th birthday.<!-- 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":157336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16877,37495,37493,37494,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157355"}],"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=157355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}