{"id":6934,"date":"2018-10-03T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:06:22","slug":"cycling-tour-of-turkey-to-start-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/cycling-tour-of-turkey-to-start-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Tour of Turkey to start next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cycling-tour-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"349\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cycling-tour-turkey.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cycling-tour-turkey-340x191.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cycling-tour-turkey-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cycling-tour-turkey-534x300.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Spokes will get into high gear in the 54th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey starting next Tuesday, Oct. 9.<\/h2>\n<p>Organized by the Turkish Cycling Federation, the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey debuted in 1963 and became an international race two years later.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s edition will see 20 teams from across the world, including the Turkish national team, race in the 950-kilometer tour.<\/p>\n<p>The Tour of Turkey was promoted to World Tour category and will reach a wide audience through broadcasts in more than 120 countries.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the six-day tour will start in Konya and end in Istanbul on Oct. 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope to take the podium on at least one or two stages of the tour,&#8221; Mehmet Safakci, the coach of the National Turkish Cycling Team, told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nine strong &#8220;World Tour&#8221; teams will be among 20 teams with 140 cyclists racing in the Tour of Turkey, Safakci said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish cyclist Ahmet Orken said: &#8220;This tour promotes the sport of cycling in Turkey. If it was not held in Turkey, we could not race in this tour as we do not have a team at this level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will compete with well-organized and stronger teams compared to last year,&#8221; Orken said.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokes will get into high gear in the 54th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey starting next Tuesday, Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7867,7877,137,7],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-politics","category-sectoral","category-tourism","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}