{"id":61230,"date":"2025-10-05T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61230\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:23:07","slug":"turkey-bans-oct-7-robbie-williams-concert-over-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61230\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey bans Oct 7 Robbie Williams concert over \u2018safety concerns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Several NGOs urged Turkish authorities to cancel the October 7 concert, and others including the Islamic Solidarity Platform had planned protests under the slogan \u201cZionist Robbie Williams, get out of Turkey!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am extremely sorry that I will not be able to perform in Istanbul next week,\u201d the 51-year-old announced on his Instagram story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCity authorities have cancelled the show, in the interests of public safety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe last thing I would ever want to do is to jeopardise the safety of my fans \u2013 their safety and security come first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">In September, Turkish authorities banned an Enrico Macias concert in Istanbul after calls to protest the French singer\u2019s pro-Israel views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">The 86-year-old singer told AFP at the time that he had performed in Turkey for 60 years and was \u201cdeeply surprised and saddened not to be able to see my audience, with whom I have always shared values of peace and fraternity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several NGOs urged Turkish authorities to cancel the October 7 concert, and others including the Islamic Solidarity Platform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29893,26977,50356,115,2199,10709,25759,156,5504,71,25623,305,5856,111,139,69,47040,1570,6270,1523,25394,27244,6302,3048,50358,13109,50359,5858,50357,13971],"class_list":["post-61230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-authorities","tag-banned","tag-bans","tag-calls","tag-city","tag-concerns","tag-concert","tag-entertainment","tag-following","tag-from","tag-governors","tag-have","tag-istanbul","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oct","tag-october","tag-office","tag-over","tag-protest","tag-robbie","tag-safety","tag-said","tag-scheduled","tag-several","tag-source","tag-turkey","tag-turkish","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}