{"id":4117,"date":"2008-09-13T02:08:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:12:36","slug":"swiss-fm-offers-turkey-regular-dialogue-on-pkk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/13\/swiss-fm-offers-turkey-regular-dialogue-on-pkk\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss FM offers Turkey regular dialogue on PKK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Turkish and Swiss foreign ministers signed on Thursday an annex to a memorandum of understanding in Bern, Switzerland. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"date\">Friday, 12 September 2008 07:48<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">Turkey&#8217;s Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey put their signatures under an annex to a memorandum of understanding, signed in the Swiss capital in 2001 that envisaged establishment of a political consultation mechanism between Turkish and Swiss foreign ministries.<\/div>\n<p>During the signature ceremony, Babacan said that two countries were broadening the mechanism of dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From now on, we will meet more often to discuss several issues like energy, migration, fight against terrorism, consulate affairs, culture and tourism,&#8221; he also said.<\/p>\n<p>In their tete-a-tete meeting, Babacan briefed Calmy-Rey on <strong>the militants whom Turkey wanted to be extradited from Switzerland and asked for support. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Babacan expressed Turkey&#8217;s concerns over <strong>insufficient cooperation between the two countries in countering terrorism. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under which name it operates, PKK is a terrorist organization,&#8221; Babacan told his Swiss counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>In return, Calmy-Rey said that <strong><em>Switzerland <\/em><em>did not have a black list <\/em>but this did not mean that her country was weak in fight against terrorism, and condemned all types of terrorism. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Calmy-Rey said that her country was not one embracing terrorism, and proposed to set up <strong>a regular dialogue between the two countries<\/strong>, send experts to Turkey, and establish a firmer cooperation between Turkish and Swiss justice ministries.<\/p>\n<p>AA<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.worldbulletin.net\/news_detail.php?id=28071\">www.worldbulletin.net<\/span>, 12 September 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish and Swiss foreign ministers signed on Thursday an annex to a memorandum of understanding in Bern, Switzerland. Friday, 12 September 2008 07:48 Turkey&#8217;s Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey put their signatures under an annex to a memorandum of understanding, signed in the Swiss capital in 2001 that envisaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":33845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607,89],"tags":[608],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-switzerland","category-turkey","tag-micheline-calmy-rey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","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=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}