{"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:\/\/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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}