{"id":18071,"date":"2010-03-27T04:27:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T02:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18071"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:29:24","slug":"turkey-supports-macedonias-nato-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/03\/27\/turkey-supports-macedonias-nato-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey supports Macedonia\u2019s NATO path"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18072\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/turkey-supports-macedonia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/turkey-supports-macedonia.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/turkey-supports-macedonia-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu (L) and his Macedonian counterpart Antonio Milosovski (R) at a press conference in Skopje on Friday. AFP photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SKOPJE &#8211; Balkan Insight<\/p>\n<p>Turkey will continue supporting Macedonia in its efforts to join NATO, and in every other way, visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu told media in Skopje after meeting his host, Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, The Balkan Insight Web site reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkey has been on Macedonia&#8217;s side since the day it declared independence and backs the country&#8217;s membership in NATO and other institutions under its constitutional name. This strong support will continue in the future,&#8221; Davuto\u011flu said.<\/p>\n<p>Both ministers assessed that relations between the two countries are \u201cmore than friendly.\u201d The ministers agreed to continue cooperation and share experiences in the bids of both countries to one day join the European Union. They committed to strengthening cultural and educational cooperation, and gave particular stress to improving economic relations.<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu said that his government would encourage Turkish businessmen to invest in Macedonia in order to match the countries&#8217; excellent political ties.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Thursday\u2019s meeting between Macedonian and Greek prime ministers in Brussels, which ended without visible progress, Foreign Minister Milososki complained that Greece was not showing enough pragmatism in its handling of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is obvious that our current [Greek] colleagues are willing to hold meetings for handshakes and for photo ops. Unfortunately, we still haven&#8217;t felt the moment of pragmatism to resolve the dispute,\u201d Milososki said.<\/p>\n<p>Skopje and Athens are locked in an almost two decade long spat over the use of the name Macedonia. Athens has effectively blocked Skopje from entering NATO and the EU until a solution to the dispute is reached. Greece claims that Skopje\u2019s official name, Republic of Macedonia, implies territorial claims over its own northern province, which is also called Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>Macedonia, Milososki added, will continue to be friendly towards all of its neighbors, especially towards Greece, but stressed that it is crucial for the name issue to be settled as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, along with Russia, China, the United States, and some 120 other U.N. member states, have recognised Macedonia under it constitutional name.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=turkey-supports-macedonia8217s-nato-path-2010-03-26\"><\/span>, March 26, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SKOPJE &#8211; Balkan Insight Turkey will continue supporting Macedonia in its efforts to join NATO, and in every other way, visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu told media in Skopje after meeting his host, Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, The Balkan Insight Web site reported. &#8220;Turkey has been on Macedonia&#8217;s side since the day it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":18072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,89],"tags":[9783],"class_list":["post-18071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macedonia","category-turkey","tag-macedonia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071","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=18071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}