{"id":2458,"date":"2019-04-13T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/turkish-football-legend-can-bartu-dies-at-83\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:35:26","slug":"turkish-football-legend-can-bartu-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/turkish-football-legend-can-bartu-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish football legend Can Bartu dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<h2>Can Bartu, a legendary figure in Turkish football and at Istanbul giants Fenerbahce, died at the age of 83, the club announced early Friday on its website.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe are experiencing the deep pain and sorrow of this great loss,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The club also wished him God\u2019s mercy and extended condolences to his family, fans and the entire sports community.<\/p>\n<p>Bartu, born on Jan. 31, 1936 in Istanbul, played both basketball and football for the club and was also known as \u201cSinyor\u201d. He later became a sports journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoglu expressed his sadness on Twitter over the death of a \u201clegendary figure of Turkish sports and Fenerbahce\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kasapoglu also wished God\u2019s mercy on Bartu and extended condolences to his family and fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will never forget you, Sinyor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Istanbul football giants Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Besiktas also shared messages of condolence on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-football-legend-can-bartu-dies-at-83\/?utm_source=source&#038;utm_medium=medyaolusum&#038;utm_campaign=english&#038;utm_content=news rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NationalTurk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Bartu, a legendary figure in Turkish football and at Istanbul giants Fenerbahce, died at the age of 83, the club announced early Friday on its website. \u201cWe are experiencing the deep pain and sorrow of this great loss,\u201d it said. The club also wished him God\u2019s mercy and extended condolences to his family, fans &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}