{"id":5333,"date":"2021-06-18T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kayifamilytv.com\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2021-06-18T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:17:41","slug":"the-meaning-of-mehmetcik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/the-meaning-of-mehmetcik\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MEANING OF MEHMETCIK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4> Mehmet\u00e7ik \u2018Little Mehmet\u2019 was an affectionate Turkish nickname for Ottoman (Turkish) soldiers. The term played on the fact that Mehmet itself a respectful contraction of \u2018Muhammad\u2019 used by many Muslims was one of the most popular male names in the Ottoman Empire.  <\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4> It was used by the soldiers themselves and in many respects was similar to the British \u2018Tommy\u2019, French \u2018Poilu\u2019, American \u2018Doughboy\u2019 and New Zealand\/Australian \u2018Digger\u2019.  <\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written By: Murat Mert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vatan90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow Murat Mert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mehmet\u00e7ik \u2018Little Mehmet\u2019 was an affectionate Turkish nickname for Ottoman (Turkish) soldiers. The term played on the fact that Mehmet itself a respectful contraction of \u2018Muhammad\u2019 used by many Muslims was one of the most popular male names in the Ottoman Empire. &nbsp; It was used by the soldiers themselves and in many respects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}