{"id":41205,"date":"2021-08-29T23:07:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=41205"},"modified":"2021-08-29T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:07:13","slug":"turkey-lockdown-pigeon-keeping-in-istanbul-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=41205","title":{"rendered":"Turkey lockdown: Pigeon-keeping in Istanbul on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The ancient art of pigeon fancying, popular across Asia, enjoyed a revival during the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As restrictions eased in Turkey over the summer, enthusiasts have started to once again gather at Edirnekap\u0131, Istanbul\u2019s largest pigeon market under the old Byzantine city walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Despite the joy of sellers to be socialising with friends and fanciers again, there is tension in the air: with Covid-19 cases on the rise again, the prospect of another lockdown in the autumn is looming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video Journalist: Daniel Thorpe<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Assistant Producer: Ali Porteous<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-58344157?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient art of pigeon fancying, popular across Asia, enjoyed a revival during the pandemic. As restrictions eased in Turkey over the summer, enthusiasts have started to once again gather at Edirnekap\u0131, Istanbul\u2019s largest pigeon market under the old Byzantine city walls. Despite the joy of sellers to be socialising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120298200_p09t9zr3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}