{"id":140561,"date":"2025-09-13T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:30:23","slug":"turkish-basketball-federation-removes-provocative-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140561\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish basketball federation removes provocative social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25255726776645-scaled.jpg?v=1757768094\" alt=\"Turkish basketball federation removes provocative social media post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25255726776645-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[AP]<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish basketball federation removed a provocative social media post on Saturday after the Hellenic Basketball Federation (EOK) protested.<\/p>\n<p>The post showed Turkish player Cedi Osman dunking and Greece\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo praying, captioned \u201cNo Mercy,\u201d following Turkey\u2019s EuroBasket semifinal win over Greece.<\/p>\n<p>EOK lodged an official complaint, and Turkey\u2019s federation apologized, claiming the post was made without its knowledge or approval. The federation then ordered it taken down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[AP] The Turkish basketball federation removed a provocative social media post on Saturday after the Hellenic Basketball Federation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,26787,85,940],"class_list":{"0":"post-140561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-diplomacy","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-turkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}