{"id":22717,"date":"2010-09-30T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=22717"},"modified":"2014-01-05T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:49:00","slug":"turkey-urges-eu-for-direct-trade-with-turkish-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/09\/30\/turkey-urges-eu-for-direct-trade-with-turkish-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey urges EU for direct trade with Turkish Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22718\" title=\"ebagis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ebagis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/>Turkey&#8217;s chief negotiator in EU accession talks urged the European Parliament to approve a legislation that would allow direct trade with Turkish Cyprus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s chief negotiator in country&#8217;s European Union accession talks on Wednesday urged the European Parliament to approve a legislation that would allow direct trade between EU member states and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The moment EU vessels dock at the Turkish Cypriot ports, our ports in Turkey will open their doors to the vessels of all EU member states,&#8221;<\/strong> Egemen Bagis told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The EU calls on Turkey to open its harbors and airports to all traffic from the Greek Cypriot administration in line with an additional protocol to the country&#8217;s customs union agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey says it will not remove limitations on the Greek Cypriot ships unless the EU ends a similar embargo on the TRNC, as the Union pledged after Turkish Cypriots agreed to a 2004 UN-brokered plan to reunify the island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Direct Trade Regulation would also help resolve the Cyprus issue by closing the income gap between the Turkish Cypriots and the Greek Cypriots,&#8221; Bagis also said.<\/p>\n<p>AA, 29 September 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s chief negotiator in EU accession talks urged the European Parliament to approve a legislation that would allow direct trade with Turkish Cyprus. Turkey&#8217;s chief negotiator in country&#8217;s European Union accession talks on Wednesday urged the European Parliament to approve a legislation that would allow direct trade between EU member states and the Turkish Republic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,211,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cyprus-trnc","category-eu-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717","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=22717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}