{"id":24163,"date":"2010-10-23T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T06:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=24163"},"modified":"2014-01-05T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:25:49","slug":"the-baffling-short-sightedness-in-the-eu-turkey-cyprus-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/23\/the-baffling-short-sightedness-in-the-eu-turkey-cyprus-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baffling Short-sightedness in the EU-Turkey-Cyprus Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cyprus_trade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"182\" \/>Diehard believers in Turkey\u2019s European future had,\u00a0for a brief moment, hung their hopes on the\u00a0European Parliament (EP) as the key to unlocking\u00a0the poisonous stalemate in Turkey\u2019s ailing accession\u00a0process. The glimmer of light had come with the\u00a0Lisbon Treaty, which could have been used to<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">unblock the stalemate over the Direct Trade\u00a0Regulation (DTR) between the EU and northern\u00a0Cyprus by granting a voice to the EP on the matter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Breaking the stalemate would not have magically\u00a0removed all obstacles to Turkey\u2019s protracted\u00a0accession process. But it would have breathed new<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">life and instilled a dose of much-needed optimism in\u00a0the troubled relations between Turkey and the Union.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Alas, that opportunity has been lost and, with it, the\u00a0short-term hope of a rosier future for Cyprus, Turkey\u00a0and the EU as a whole.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read full document&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diehard believers in Turkey\u2019s European future had,\u00a0for a brief moment, hung their hopes on the\u00a0European Parliament (EP) as the key to unlocking\u00a0the poisonous stalemate in Turkey\u2019s ailing accession\u00a0process. The glimmer of light had come with the\u00a0Lisbon Treaty, which could have been used to unblock the stalemate over the Direct Trade\u00a0Regulation (DTR) between the EU and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,211,21],"tags":[4027,3775,4028],"class_list":["post-24163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","category-cyprus-trnc","category-eu-members","tag-direct-trade-regulation","tag-docs","tag-dtr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163","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=24163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}