{"id":113168,"date":"2017-08-21T05:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T09:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113168"},"modified":"2017-08-21T05:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T09:20:44","slug":"berlin-9-injured-after-smoke-bomb-goes-off-at-kurdish-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/21\/berlin-9-injured-after-smoke-bomb-goes-off-at-kurdish-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin: 9 injured after smoke bomb goes off at Kurdish event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109597\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Flag_of_Germany.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109597\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Flag_of_Germany.png\" alt=\"Germany Flag (Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Flag_of_Germany.png 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Flag_of_Germany-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Flag_of_Germany-768x461.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Germany Flag (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flag_of_Germany.svg\">Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN &#8212; Police in Germany&#8217;s capital say nine people have been slightly injured when a smoke bomb went off at an event by the Kurdish community.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin police said Monday that nine participants had to be treated for breathing difficulties at the meeting Sunday night which was about Iraq&#8217;s semi-autonomous Kurdish region decision to hold a referendum on independence next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish government is strictly opposed to such a vote and has warned that a referendum could lead to civil war. Turkey is also involved in a long-simmering conflict with Kurds for more independence in its own southeastern region.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it wasn&#8217;t clear who was behind the incident in Berlin which was attended by 400 people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &#8212; Police in Germany&#8217;s capital say nine people have been slightly injured when a smoke bomb went off at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[14068,17051,21598],"class_list":["post-113168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-berlin","tag-injured","tag-smoke-bomb","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}