{"id":3614,"date":"2008-09-05T21:18:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/05\/turkey-helps-to-advance-stability-in-region\/"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:10:15","slug":"turkey-helps-to-advance-stability-in-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/05\/turkey-helps-to-advance-stability-in-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey helps to advance stability in region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: The dark shadow of Russia&#8217;s ambition, Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>David Warren&#8217;s column was remarkable for the number of inaccurate assertions about Turkey that he managed to squeeze into a single paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>These included: &#8220;Turkey is the least reliable NATO member, &#8230; flirting with fanatic Islamism, &#8230;(embarking on an) anti-Western ideological sleepwalk, &#8230;deny(ing) the NATO fleet entry into the Black Sea&#8221; None of these statements bear any resemblance to the actions or attitudes of the country that I represent.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has been among the most reliable members of NATO and allies of Canada since it joined the alliance over 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Turkish soldiers serve side-by-side with Canadians in Afghanistan. As a key member of the western alliance and a bastion of political stability in the region, Turkey&#8217;s 80-year history as a secular democracy has demonstrated the enduring compatibility of democratic values with a predominantly Muslim society.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey helps to advance stability in region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: The dark shadow of Russia&#8217;s ambition, Aug. 30. David Warren&#8217;s column was remarkable for the number of inaccurate assertions about Turkey that he managed to squeeze into a single paragraph. These included: &#8220;Turkey is the least reliable NATO member, &#8230; flirting with fanatic Islamism, &#8230;(embarking on an) anti-Western ideological sleepwalk, &#8230;deny(ing) the NATO fleet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":431828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada-north-america-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","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=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}