{"id":29709,"date":"2010-12-27T04:13:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T02:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=29709"},"modified":"2010-12-27T04:13:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T02:13:23","slug":"karzai-wants-taliban-office-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/27\/karzai-wants-taliban-office-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Karzai wants Taliban office in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said there are suggestions that the Taliban open a representation office in Turkey or another impartial country \u201cto facilitate reconciliation\u201d in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a reporter\u2019s question while attending the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Turkey Trilateral Summit in Istanbul, Karzai said Kabul would be happy if Turkey could provide such a venue, Anatolia news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Abdullah Gul said he was not aware of such suggestions but stressed that Turkey \u201cwill do anything that would contribute to stability and security in Afghanistan,\u201d according to Anatolia.<\/p>\n<p>During the Trilateral Summit, Karzai held talks with his counterparts Abdullah Gul of Turkey and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fifth such meeting since 2007 when Turkey launched the initiative to push Afghanistan and Pakistan to enhance cooperation against insurgents and improve ties poisoned by the insecurity plaguing their rugged border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said there are suggestions that the Taliban open a representation office in Turkey or another impartial country \u201cto facilitate reconciliation\u201d in the war-torn country. Responding to a reporter\u2019s question while attending the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Turkey Trilateral Summit in Istanbul, Karzai said Kabul would be happy if Turkey could provide such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":645366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709","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=29709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}