{"id":85108,"date":"2011-04-13T11:58:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=85108"},"modified":"2011-04-13T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T06:58:37","slug":"football-legend-hopes-to-make-it-into-turkeys-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/13\/football-legend-hopes-to-make-it-into-turkeys-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Football Legend Hopes to Make it into Turkey&#8217;s Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several athletes and sports administrators, including Turkish football legend Hakan \u015e\u00fck\u00fcr, will try to make it to the Parliament in the general elections on June 12, as the final lists were announced on Monday, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=athletes-sports-officials-hope-to-make-way-to-turkish-parliament-2011-04-12\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Hurriyet Daily News &amp; Economic Review<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u015e\u00fck\u00fcr was nominated from the 3rd Region of Istanbul by the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, fourth on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for his long and successful spell at Galatasaray, \u015e\u00fck\u00fcr tops the all-time scoring list in Turkish football leagues and national team. A move to the political stage was rumored for \u015e\u00fck\u00fcr, who was also known for having close ties with religious leader Fethullah G\u00fclen, since the forward\u2019s retirement from football in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old player, who also played at Inter, Parma, Torino and Blackburn for short spells, is not the only athlete on AKP\u2019s list, since Tolga Murat Bal\u0131k\u00e7\u0131, a two-time World Champion in Disabled Bodybuilding, was nominated from the 2nd Region of \u0130zmir, ninth on the list.<\/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>Several athletes and sports administrators, including Turkish football legend Hakan \u015e\u00fck\u00fcr, will try to make it to the Parliament in the&#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":85045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12893,13906,24769,24771,13317,10222,24770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85108"}],"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=85108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}