{"id":19708,"date":"2010-06-14T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19708"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:56:25","slug":"turkeys-place-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/14\/turkeys-place-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s place in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Turkey&#8217;s place in Europe was the cause of heated debate this\u00a0week, as the United States expressed its concerns that the\u00a0EU&#8217;s refusal to accept Turkey as a member swiftly has partly\u00a0caused the deterioration in its relations with Israel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Since starting EU membership talks in 2005, Turkey has\u00a0succeeded in opening only 12 of the 35 chapters that\u00a0candidate countries must complete to join. With both France\u00a0and Germany cool on Turkish membership, the worry is that<\/div>\n<div>the EU&#8217;s refusal to embrace Turkey is pushing it eastwards.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As Italy&#8217;s foreign minister said: <strong>&#8220;If we give Turkey the\u00a0impression that we don&#8217;t want them as a member of the EU\u00a0family then they will look around for other perspectives,\u00a0for example regional powers like Iran and Syria.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s place in Europe was the cause of heated debate this\u00a0week, as the United States expressed its concerns that the\u00a0EU&#8217;s refusal to accept Turkey as a member swiftly has partly\u00a0caused the deterioration in its relations with Israel. Since starting EU membership talks in 2005, Turkey has\u00a0succeeded in opening only 12 of the 35 chapters that\u00a0candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,89],"tags":[985],"class_list":["post-19708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-turkey","tag-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708","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=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/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=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}