{"id":28028,"date":"2010-12-04T18:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=28028"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:09:15","slug":"intl-cooperation-platform-bolsters-turkey-regional-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/04\/intl-cooperation-platform-bolsters-turkey-regional-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Intl. Cooperation Platform bolsters Turkey regional ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jody Sabral, Press TV, Istanbul<\/p>\n<p>Having the 16th largest economy world-wide, Turkey is a key regional economic power. Its rapid pace of growth and ability to with-stand the global economic crisis, says Turkey&#8217;s president, provides regional partners with know-how his country wants to share to aid regional development.<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish initiative, the International Cooperation Platform, brought together representatives from 26 countries including ministerial delegations from Pakistan and Iran to talk infrastructure and connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s foreign economic relations board showcased a project which aims to integrate the economies of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, not unlike the European Union model&#8230; Turkey&#8217;s hopes this will later be expanded to include other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Foreign economic board. Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Syrian private sectors are cooperating and our aim is to share our experience.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s energy minister called for regional energy integration and cooperation to enhance the lives of ordinary people from Madrid to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Participants we spoke to agree and believe that strengthening relations in a regional setting can be a more effective to approach and solve regional problems.<\/p>\n<p>via PressTV &#8211; Intl. Cooperation Platform bolsters Turkey regional ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jody Sabral, Press TV, Istanbul Having the 16th largest economy world-wide, Turkey is a key regional economic power. Its rapid pace of growth and ability to with-stand the global economic crisis, says Turkey&#8217;s president, provides regional partners with know-how his country wants to share to aid regional development. A Turkish initiative, the International Cooperation Platform, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":66059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28028","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=28028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}