{"id":32479,"date":"2011-04-21T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T07:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=32479"},"modified":"2011-04-21T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T07:26:59","slug":"eus-fuele-accession-talks-with-turkey-may-resume-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/04\/21\/eus-fuele-accession-talks-with-turkey-may-resume-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"EU&#8217;s Fuele: accession talks with Turkey may resume in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, Belgium &#8212; EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said on Tuesday (April 19th) that accession talks with Turkey may restart in June after a year-long hiatus. His statement followed a meeting of the EU-Turkey Association Council in Brussels. &#8220;If Turkey takes the few remaining steps in time, the competition chapter can hopefully still be opened,&#8221; Fuele said, adding that giving new momentum to the negotiations is in everyone&#8217;s interest. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said &#8220;nobody can blame Turkey&#8221; for the deadlock and called for &#8220;strategic political will by all member countries of the EU&#8221;. Turkey has opened talks on 13 of 35 negotiating chapters, but has only closed one.<\/p>\n<p>In other news Tuesday, Reporters without Borders expressed serious concern about press freedom in Turkey. &#8220;We do not even have an exact number of journalists who are being kept in prison under arrest,&#8221; Jean Francois Juillard, the organisation&#8217;s secretary-general, said after its representatives spent six days in Istanbul researching the issue. &#8220;Violence against journalists has increased. Journalists are being assassinated,&#8221; he added. (Hurriyet, Cumhurriyet, Bianet, NTV, Sabah, Zaman &#8211; 19\/04\/11)<\/p>\n<p>via EU&#8217;s Fuele: accession talks with Turkey may resume in June (SETimes.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, Belgium &#8212; EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said on Tuesday (April 19th) that accession talks with Turkey may restart in June after a year-long hiatus. His statement followed a meeting of the EU-Turkey Association Council in Brussels. &#8220;If Turkey takes the few remaining steps in time, the competition chapter can hopefully still be opened,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5327],"class_list":["post-32479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","tag-fuele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32479","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=32479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}