{"id":30043,"date":"2011-01-11T15:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T13:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=30043"},"modified":"2014-01-06T00:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:50:47","slug":"singer-senturk-becomes-turkeys-honorary-eu-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/01\/11\/singer-senturk-becomes-turkeys-honorary-eu-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer \u015eent\u00fcrk becomes Turkey’s honorary EU ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State Minister and chief negotiator Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f pinned an \u201cHonorary European Union Ambassador\u201d pin on the visually impaired singer during a ceremony at the European Union General Secretariat office in Istanbul\u2019s Ortak\u00f6y quarter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Singer Metin \u015eent\u00fcrk has been named Turkey\u2019s honorary European Union ambassador for his work in bringing Turkey\u2019s regulations and practices for people with disabilities up to EU standards.<\/p>\n

State Minister and chief negotiator Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f pinned an \u201cHonorary European Union Ambassador\u201d pin on the visually impaired singer during a ceremony at the European Union General Secretariat office in Istanbul\u2019s Ortak\u00f6y quarter, where he noted that Turkey has entered another year of EU negotiations.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony, Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said \u015eent\u00fcrk was a role model for millions of people with disabilities living in Turkey because he had removed obstacles by trying to bring the country\u2019s regulations on disabilities in line with international standards and by promoting Turkey in EU member countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have worked a lot during these past few years. Despite all the pessimism and negativity, we have stuck our heart and soul into this vital project. Nevertheless, this negotiation process is sometimes evaluated from a very narrow viewpoint and we regret this,\u201d Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f was quoted as saying Monday by Anatolia news agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we separate the 13 chapters we have opened so far, 17 of the remaining 20 chapters on our agenda face political obstacles imposed by the commission or members of the European Union,\u201d said Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f.<\/p>\n

Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said the other three chapters included a competition chapter, which they continue to work on, one on public procurement and a final chapter on social politics and employment. These chapters are the hardest chapters of the EU, said Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f, adding that it was no coincidence that other countries had also left them to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Singer Metin \u015eent\u00fcrk has been named Turkey\u2019s honorary European Union ambassador for his work in bringing Turkey\u2019s regulations and practices for people with disabilities up to EU standards. State Minister and chief negotiator Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f pinned an \u201cHonorary European Union Ambassador\u201d pin on the visually impaired singer during a ceremony at the European Union General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4865],"class_list":["post-30043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","tag-metin-senturk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30043","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=30043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}