{"id":18792,"date":"2018-10-17T04:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T04:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18792"},"modified":"2018-10-17T04:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T04:24:55","slug":"turkish-police-shoot-driver-planning-israel-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18792","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police shoot driver \u2018planning Israel protest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1389086\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nANKARA: Turkish police on Monday shot a tractor driver in the leg after he refused to stop, state media reported, with the suspect claiming he was planning a protest at Israel\u2019s embassy in Ankara.<br \/>The 45-year-old was detained after damaging several vehicles with the tractor in the capital despite calls to stop by the police, state-run news agency Anadolu said.<br \/>The driver claimed that he was on his way \u201cto protest in front of the Israeli Embassy\u201d in Ankara but no details on the planned action were given by Anadolu.<br \/>However, an Israeli official, who did not wish to be named, said \u201cto the best of our understanding, the incident was not related to Israel or its embassy.\u201d<br \/>The Ankara governor\u2019s office said in a statement that the incident was being investigated but officials could find no links to terror.<br \/>The office did not mention the planned protest and the incident took place near the Israeli ambassador\u2019s residence in Ankara, not the embassy. Relations between Israel and Turkey, one of the Jewish state\u2019s few key Muslim partners, have been strained this year.<br \/>In May, Ankara ordered Israel\u2019s ambassador to leave over the killing of protesters along the border with the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: Turkish police on Monday shot a tractor driver in the leg after he refused to stop, state media reported, with the suspect claiming he was planning a protest at Israel\u2019s embassy in Ankara.The 45-year-old was detained after damaging several vehicles with the tractor in the capital despite calls to stop by the police, state-run&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}