{"id":76652,"date":"2011-03-17T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=76652"},"modified":"2011-03-17T12:12:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T08:12:44","slug":"turkish-company-now-sponsors-henrikh-mkhitaryans-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/17\/turkish-company-now-sponsors-henrikh-mkhitaryans-football-club.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Company Now Sponsors Henrikh Mkhitaryan&#8217;s Football Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Airlines (THY) signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with FC Shakhtar (Donetsk), a Ukrainian professional association football club in which Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan plays, reports Turkish daily Yeni Safak.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, THY is also the sponsor of FC Barcelona and Manchester United FC.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yeni Safak, the Turkish company&#8217;s name will be written on the team jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2010\/12\/16\/l-a-\u2019s-armenian-community-angry-over-nba-star\u2019s-deal-with-turkish-airlines\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">previously reported<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, a few months ago, THY signed Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant as its \u201cglobal brand ambassador\u201d for the next two years. Bryant\u2019s latest endorsement deal resulted in outrage by Armenian-American fans, who wrote letters to the Lakers guard, urging him to break his contract with the national air carrier of a country that has not recognized the Armenian Genocide.<\/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 Airlines (THY) signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with FC Shakhtar (Donetsk), a Ukrainian professional&#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":76577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14562,17480,12136,12134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76652"}],"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=76652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}