{"id":58687,"date":"2011-01-25T18:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=58687"},"modified":"2011-01-25T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T14:02:27","slug":"shot-turkish-journalist-promises-to-continue-writing-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/25\/shot-turkish-journalist-promises-to-continue-writing-the-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"Shot Turkish Journalist Promises to Continue Writing the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Journalist Kaz\u0131m \u015een, owner of the usak.tv news site, was shot at in front of his house in U\u015fak (interior of western Turkey). He was injured at his foot. The alleged attacker was arrested and the weapon seized, reports BIA, citing Milliyet.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the U\u015fak Denge newspaper,Tekin U\u011fur, 23, was waiting for U\u015fak in front of his home when he arrived by car together with his wife Semra \u015een. He shot \u015een into his legs three times. U\u011fur was arrested shortly after; he was still carrying the unlicensed weapon. He admitted the offence in his first statement.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were taken into custody upon \u015een&#8217;s statement, among them the former provincial chair of Turkey&#8217;s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). They were released when U\u011fur was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, \u015een said, &#8220;We, as journalists, fulfil our duty and make news about incidents of unsolved shootings. I do not know my attacker; it is not important who did this but who made him do this. We will continue writing the truth even if they shoot a bullet into our brains.&#8221;<\/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 Journalist Kaz\u0131m \u015een, owner of the usak.tv news site, was shot at in front of his house in U\u015fak (interior of western Turkey). <!-- 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":58669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11240,11978,20641,11397,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58687"}],"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=58687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}