{"id":6625,"date":"2016-05-17T07:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:16:25","slug":"turkey-blasts-europes-silence-on-nizami-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-blasts-europes-silence-on-nizami-hanging\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey blasts Europe\u2019s silence on Nizami hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3537 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Erdugan.jpg\" alt=\"Erdugan\" width=\"351\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Erdugan.jpg 580w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Erdugan-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday lashed out at Europe\u2019s silence over the execution of a veteran leader in Bangladesh, accusing the West of \u201cdouble standards.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf you are against political executions, why did you remain silent to the execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami who was martyred a couple of days ago,\u201d Erdogan said in a televised speech in Istanbul.<br \/>\n\u201cHave you heard anything from Europe? &#8230; No. Isn\u2019t it called double standards?\u201d Erdogan said.<br \/>\nNizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a Dhaka jail late Tuesday for the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.<br \/>\nThe 73-year-old former government minister was the fifth and the most senior opposition figure executed since the secular government in the overwhelmingly Muslim nation set up a controversial war crimes tribunal in 2010.<br \/>\nIn protest, Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Bangladesh for consultations.<br \/>\nSince coming to power in 2002, Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has sought to boost the country\u2019s power in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-blasts-europes-silence-on-nizami-hanging\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday lashed out at Europe\u2019s silence over the execution of a veteran leader in Bangladesh, accusing the West of \u201cdouble standards.\u201d \u201cIf you are against political executions, why did you remain silent to the execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami who was martyred a couple of days ago,\u201d Erdogan said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}