{"id":12991,"date":"2009-06-08T02:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:53:23","slug":"obama-sarkozy-disagree-turkeys-entry-to-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/06\/08\/obama-sarkozy-disagree-turkeys-entry-to-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Sarkozy disagree Turkey&#8217;s entry to EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AP foreign<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">CAEN, France (AP) &#8211; \u0080\u0094 President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy don&#8217;t see eye to eye on whether Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Obama supports EU membership for the largely Muslim country. Sarkozy (sahr-koh-ZEE&#8217;) opposes it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Obama says Turkey is an important NATO ally is helping with the war in Afghanistan. He says Turkey&#8217;s economy is growing and that the country wants closer relations with Europe \u00e2\u0080\u0094 something Obama says he encourages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Sarkozy says he supports Turkey&#8217;s integration into Europe, but that he and Obama disagree on how to achieve it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The two leaders spoke at a news conference Saturday before D-Day celebrations in Normandy, France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/feedarticle\/8545069\">www.guardian.co.uk<\/span>,\u00a0June 7 2009<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP foreign CAEN, France (AP) &#8211; \u0080\u0094 President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy don&#8217;t see eye to eye on whether Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union. Obama supports EU membership for the largely Muslim country. Sarkozy (sahr-koh-ZEE&#8217;) opposes it. Obama says Turkey is an important NATO ally is helping with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":49467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48,89,34],"tags":[145,136],"class_list":["post-12991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-france","category-turkey","category-usa","tag-barack-obama","tag-sarkozy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991","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=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}