{"id":19941,"date":"2026-07-02T23:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/ova_dir\/cengiz-topel-aniti\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:44:53","slug":"cengiz-topel-aniti","status":"publish","type":"ova_dir","link":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/gezilecek-yerler\/cengiz-topel-aniti\/","title":{"rendered":"CENG\u0130Z TOPEL MONUMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cengiz Topel (b. 1934, \u0130zmit \u2013 d. 1964, Cyprus), Turkish air force captain.<\/p>\n<p>On 8 August 1964, during a warning flight carried out by the Turkish Air Force over Cyprus, his aircraft was hit by Greek Cypriot anti-aircraft fire; although he managed to bail out by parachute, he was taken prisoner and subsequently killed.<\/p>\n<p>Topel, whom the Greek Cypriots stated had died in hospital, had his body returned on 12 August 1964. He was the Turkish Air Force\u2019s first pilot casualty in Cyprus.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cengiz Topel\u00a0(d. 1934, \u0130zmit \u2013 \u00f6. 1964, K\u0131br\u0131s), T\u00fcrk pilot y\u00fczba\u015f\u0131. 8.A\u011fustos 1964&#039;te T\u00fcrk Hava Kuvvetleri&#039;nin K\u0131br\u0131s&#039;ta ger\u00e7ekle\u015ftirdi\u011fi uyar\u0131 u\u00e7u\u015funda, u\u00e7a\u011f\u0131 Rum u\u00e7aksavarlar taraf\u0131ndan vurulunca para\u015f\u00fctle atlamay\u0131 ba\u015farmas\u0131na ra\u011fmen esir al\u0131nd\u0131ktan sonra \u00f6ld\u00fcr\u00fclm\u00fc\u015ft\u00fcr. Rumlar taraf\u0131ndan hastanede \u00f6ld\u00fc\u011f\u00fc belirtilen Topel&#039;in naa\u015f\u0131 12.a\u011fustos 1964\u2019te iade edilmi\u015ftir. T\u00fcrk Hava Kuvvetleri&#039;nin K\u0131br\u0131s&#039;taki ilk pilot kayb\u0131d\u0131r.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":19942,"template":"","cat_dir":[129],"tag_dir":[],"class_list":["post-19941","ova_dir","type-ova_dir","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cat_dir-gezilecek-yerler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ova_dir\/19941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ova_dir"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ova_dir"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_dir","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_dir?post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"tag_dir","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefkebelediyesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_dir?post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}