{"id":12816,"date":"2009-05-31T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2011-09-02T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T08:34:17","slug":"top-czech-diplomat-sees-turkeys-geopolitic-importance-as-reason-for-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/05\/31\/top-czech-diplomat-sees-turkeys-geopolitic-importance-as-reason-for-eu-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP CZECH DIPLOMAT SEES TURKEY&#8217;S GEOPOLITIC IMPORTANCE AS REASON FOR EU MEMBERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12817\" title=\"eva-filipi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/eva-filipi.jpg\" alt=\"eva-filipi\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" \/>SANLIURFA (A.A)<\/strong> &#8211; 30.05.2009 &#8211; The senior Czech diplomat in Turkey saw on Saturday Turkey&#8217;s geopolitic importance as a reason for European Union (EU) membership.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Filipi, the ambassadress of the Czech Republic to Turkey, said that there were many reasons to make Turkey a full member of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Filipi enumerated these reasons as Turkey&#8217;s geopolitic and strategic importance and location.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech Republic has been holding the rotating presidency of the EU since the beginning of 2009, and will hand over the presidency to Sweden as of July 1, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassadress expressed her country&#8217;s full support for Turkey&#8217;s EU membership bid, and said both Turkey and the EU should be fair as much as they could and fulfil their obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Filipi said that the EU was not a Christian club, and had many universal principles and values that were not related with religion.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey became an EU candidate country in December 1999. The union launched accession talks with Turkey on October 3, 2005. (BRC)<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/haber.turk.net\/ENG\/2281344\/-dip--Top-Czech-Diplomat-Sees-Turkey-S-Geopolitic-Importance-As-Reason-For-Eu-Membership\">haber.turk.net<\/span>,\u00a030.05.2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANLIURFA (A.A) &#8211; 30.05.2009 &#8211; The senior Czech diplomat in Turkey saw on Saturday Turkey&#8217;s geopolitic importance as a reason for European Union (EU) membership. Eva Filipi, the ambassadress of the Czech Republic to Turkey, said that there were many reasons to make Turkey a full member of the EU. Filipi enumerated these reasons as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":12817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1220,21,502,89],"tags":[1583,1585,1584],"class_list":["post-12816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-czech-republic","category-eu-members","category-sweden","category-turkey","tag-eva-filipi","tag-sanliurfa","tag-the-ambassadress-of-the-czech-republic-to-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816","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=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}