{"id":29405,"date":"2010-12-20T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=29405"},"modified":"2014-01-06T00:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:37:53","slug":"ghana-turkey-in-oil-barter-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/20\/ghana-turkey-in-oil-barter-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana, Turkey in oil barter deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/oil2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/>Turkey says it has reached an agreement with Ghana to buy oil from the country through a barter scheme arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>News in the Turkish media seen by ghanabusinessnews.com says Turkey\u2019s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Zafer \u00c7a\u011flayan has indicated that he has had talks with two oil producing countries in West Africa \u2013 Nigeria and Ghana, and the two countries have responded positively to such an arrangement. The Turkish Minister recently toured Ghana, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, all oil producing countries. And while in Ghana, he was reported to have met Ghana\u2019s Vice President John Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>Under the arrangement, he said Turkey will purchase oil from Nigeria and Ghana and pay for it by investing in tourism, energy, health and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana officially became an oil producing country following the launch of commercial activities by President Mills at the Jubilee oil field yesterday December 15, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanabusinessnews.com has been unable to reach the Vice President\u2019s office for comments.<\/p>\n<p>By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi<\/p>\n<p>via Ghana, Turkey in oil barter deal : Ghana Business News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey says it has reached an agreement with Ghana to buy oil from the country through a barter scheme arrangement. News in the Turkish media seen by ghanabusinessnews.com says Turkey\u2019s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Zafer \u00c7a\u011flayan has indicated that he has had talks with two oil producing countries in West Africa \u2013 Nigeria and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":29407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[4002,4825,3348],"class_list":["post-29405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ghana","tag-caglayan","tag-oil-barter","tag-zafer-caglayan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405","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=29405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}