{"id":11981,"date":"2009-05-05T01:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T22:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2011-09-02T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T08:27:33","slug":"italian-ambassador-italy-strongly-supports-turkeys-eu-membership-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/05\/05\/italian-ambassador-italy-strongly-supports-turkeys-eu-membership-process\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALIAN AMBASSADOR: ITALY STRONGLY SUPPORTS TURKEY’S EU MEMBERSHIP PROCESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANKARA (A.A)<\/strong> – 04.05.2009 – Italian Ambassador in Ankara Carlo Marsili said on Monday that his country extended strong support to Turkey’s EU membership process. Speaking at a conference in Ankara, Marsili said that Turkey’s face always turned towards western world.<\/p>\n

Noting that EU membership process was difficult, Marsili stressed that the target of Turkey was full membership to the EU.<\/p>\n

Marsili said that if Turkey met all the conditions asked by the EU in the end of membership negotiations, then there would not be any obstacle before Turkey’s membership.<\/p>\n

He noted that Turkey should speed up membership process and fulfill the reforms within that scope.<\/p>\n

Expressing belief that there would be a “successful marriage” between Turkey and the EU, Marsili said that he believed the artificial obstacles before the membership negotiations would be eliminated.<\/p>\n

Marsili said that relations with Cyprus and Greece were influential issues in Turkey’s negotiation process, adding that insolubility of Cyprus issue damaged Turkey’s EU membership process.<\/p>\n

Noting that they did not want the EU to be a Christian club, Marsili said that objecting Turkey on the grounds that it was a Muslim country was not appropriate to the founding values of the EU.<\/p>\n

Marsili said that Turkey, in all aspects, was a European country, and it was important as a secular and democratic country.<\/p>\n

Noting that Turkey had one of the most dynamic economies of Europe, Marsili pointed out the economic growth of Turkey despite the global economic crisis. (GC-A\u00d6)<\/p>\n

Source: haber.turk.net<\/span>, 04\/05\/2009<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANKARA (A.A) – 04.05.2009 – Italian Ambassador in Ankara Carlo Marsili said on Monday that his country extended strong support to Turkey’s EU membership process. Speaking at a conference in Ankara, Marsili said that Turkey’s face always turned towards western world. Noting that EU membership process was difficult, Marsili stressed that the target of Turkey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,835,679,89],"tags":[1443],"class_list":["post-11981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-europe","category-italy-eu-members-european-countries-english","category-turkey","tag-italian-ambassador-carlo-marsili"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981","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=11981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}