{"id":25929,"date":"2010-11-16T07:56:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T05:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=25929"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:14:34","slug":"turkish-president-i-dont-have-a-problem-with-israelis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/16\/turkish-president-i-dont-have-a-problem-with-israelis\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish president: I don&#8217;t have a problem with Israelis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JPOST.COM STAFF<\/p>\n<p>11\/15\/2010 13:23<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25931\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25931\" title=\"Photo by: AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/gul2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: AP\" width=\"311\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/gul2.jpg 311w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/gul2-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Jews are praying for me in their synagogues every Saturday, all of them are our citizens,&#8221; Turkish newspaper quotes Gul as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Abdullah Gul has said Turkey does not have a problem with the people of Israel, but rather that the problems with Israel stem from the policies that are employed by its government, according to a report by the Turkish daily Hurriyet published Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have learned that [Turkish] Jews are praying for me in their synagogues every Saturday. All of them are our citizens. Our problem is not with the people of Israel, but with the policies pursued by the government of Israel,\u201d G\u00fcl said, in remarks that were published Sunday in another publication, Milliyet.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Israel and Turkey rose in the wake of the IDF raid on the Turkish Mavi Mamara ship trying to break the Gaza blockade, during which nine Turks were killed on May 31.<\/p>\n<p>However Turkish officials have reiterated that they are committed to maintaining friendly ties with Israel despite ongoing diplomatic tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JPOST.COM STAFF 11\/15\/2010 13:23 &#8220;Jews are praying for me in their synagogues every Saturday, all of them are our citizens,&#8221; Turkish newspaper quotes Gul as saying. Turkish President Abdullah Gul has said Turkey does not have a problem with the people of Israel, but rather that the problems with Israel stem from the policies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":25931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[1344,1124,3044],"class_list":["post-25929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-gul","tag-jews-in-turkey","tag-mavi-marmara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929","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=25929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}