{"id":8969,"date":"2014-02-18T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2014-02-18T14:08:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:08:48","slug":"turkish-taekwondo-athlete-dies-after-heart-attack-during-a-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/turkish-taekwondo-athlete-dies-after-heart-attack-during-a-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish taekwondo athlete dies after heart attack during a tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/ll_embed?f=eb15d4b8e4f1\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ANKARA, Turkey (AP) An official says a 21-year-old Turkish taekwondo athlete has died after suffering a heart attack during a tournament in Luxor, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Taekwondo Federation official Ramazan Ercin said Seyithan Akbalik collapsed while competing against a Slovenian athlete on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ercin said Akbalik was taken to a hospital where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Akbalik was taking part in the men&#8217;s 63-kilogram category at the Luxor Open, where Ercin said athletes hoped to earn points to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics. He was one of 13 Turkish athletes taking part.<\/p>\n<p>Ercin told Turkey&#8217;s state-run Anadolu Agency: &#8220;Seyithan was a successful athlete who was a youth European champion. We are very saddened.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tae.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8970\" alt=\"tae\" src=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tae.jpeg\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tae.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tae-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey (AP) An official says a 21-year-old Turkish taekwondo athlete has died after suffering a heart attack during a tournament in Luxor, Egypt. Turkish Taekwondo Federation official Ramazan Ercin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/turkish-taekwondo-athlete-dies-after-heart-attack-during-a-tournament\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}