{"id":82759,"date":"2011-04-06T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=82759"},"modified":"2011-04-06T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:59:29","slug":"portrait-of-turkeys-head-of-state-and-wife-sold-for-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/06\/portrait-of-turkeys-head-of-state-and-wife-sold-for-275.html","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Turkey&#8217;s Head of State and Wife Sold for $275"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam has painted a portrait of Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl and his wife Hayr\u00fcnnisa, which sold at an auction for $275,000 US, reports Vesti.az, citing Turkish media. As told by the painter himself, all proceeds will go toward the construction of dormitories at a Turkish college in the Indonesian province of Aceh.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait was acquired by an Indonesian businessman, who is preparing to give the portrait as a gift to the Turkish head of state, who is in Indonesia on an official visit.<\/p>\n<p>Alam said he took up painting after the devastating 2004 earthquake and tsunami that claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Alam met Turkey&#8217;s current president in 2007, when, as foreign affairs minister, he participated in a meeting in Istanbul, and since then they have been friends. Alam then promised G\u00fcl that he&#8217;d make a portrait of him.<\/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>Indonesian Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam has painted a portrait of Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl and his wife Hayr\u00fcnnisa, which&#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":82671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10715,24413,24414,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759"}],"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=82759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}