{"id":108591,"date":"2014-09-18T19:55:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=108591"},"modified":"2023-04-02T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T18:22:07","slug":"cyprus-leaders-decide-to-accelerate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2014\/09\/18\/cyprus-leaders-decide-to-accelerate-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"CYPRUS: Leaders decide to accelerate talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities decided to accelerate talks aimed at reunifying the divided island, it was announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Greek Cypriot leader <strong>Nicos Anastasiades<\/strong> and Turkish Cypriot leader <strong>Dervis Eroglu<\/strong> have also agreed to meet twice a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Nicos Anastasiades (Greek Cypriot leader)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Dervis Eroglu (Turkish Cypriot leader)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by the UN following a meeting between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking afterwards, Anastasiades said \u201cthere has been a constructive discussion\u201d highlighting the need for the two sides to engage in a substantive dialogue to change the current situation.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he is optimistic, Anastasiades replied that he did not want to make any statements that might be perceived as engaging in the usual <strong>\u201cblame game.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <strong>K\u00fcfi Seydali<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18.09.2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities decided to accelerate talks aimed at reunifying the divided island, it was announced on Wednesday. Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu have also agreed to meet twice a month. \u00a0Nicos Anastasiades (Greek Cypriot leader) \u00a0\u00a0Dervis Eroglu (Turkish Cypriot leader) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":757203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus-trnc","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}