{"id":227040,"date":"2019-02-06T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=227040"},"modified":"2019-02-06T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:04:08","slug":"1200-year-old-bible-seized-in-southeastern-turkeys-diyarbakir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/1200-year-old-bible-seized-in-southeastern-turkeys-diyarbakir\/","title":{"rendered":"1,200-year-old Bible seized in southeastern Turkey\u2019s Diyarbak\u0131r"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Security forces on Tuesday seized a Bible said to be 1,200 years old in southeastern Turkey&#8217;s Diyarbak\u0131r province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Diyarbak\u0131r governor&#8217;s office, local gendarmerie received intel that someone was looking to sell an ancient Bible manuscript written on leather with gold-encrusted motifs.<\/p>\n<p>Suspects were caught red-handed while trying to sell the 34-page manuscript, Daily Sabah reports.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces said six people were detained in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Diyarbak\u0131r is located near the Turkish border with Syria. It is not known if the Bible was smuggled from the war-torn country, but Turkey has become a primary destination for those smuggling antiquities from Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Foto credit:\u00a0H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces on Tuesday seized a Bible said to be 1,200 years old in southeastern Turkey&#8217;s Diyarbak\u0131r province. According to the Diyarbak\u0131r governor&#8217;s office, local gendarmerie received intel that someone was looking to sell an ancient Bible manuscript written on leather with gold-encrusted motifs. Suspects were caught red-handed while trying to sell the 34-page manuscript,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":227034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[13677,3923,1698],"class_list":["post-227040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","category-social-en","tag-bible","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"better_featured_image":{"id":227034,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":650,"height":499,"file":"2019\/02\/BIblie-turcia.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"BIblie-turcia-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BIblie-turcia-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":227040,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BIblie-turcia.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227040\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=227040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227040\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227034\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=227040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=227040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=227040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}