{"id":45360,"date":"2011-10-16T05:11:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=45360"},"modified":"2011-10-16T05:11:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T02:11:23","slug":"turkey-won%e2%80%99t-recognize-cyprus-as-eu-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/16\/turkey-won%e2%80%99t-recognize-cyprus-as-eu-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey won\u2019t recognize Cyprus as EU presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey &#8211; Turkey\u2019s prime minister says his country will not sit at the table with Cyprus if it assumes the European Union\u2019s presidency before a deal reunifying the ethnically split island is reached.<\/p>\n<p>Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already warned that Turkey will freeze its relations with the bloc if Cyprus takes over the 27-member bloc\u2019s rotating presidency in July 2012. He said Saturday Turkey will not deal with a \u201cso-called country.\u201d Turkey does not recognize Cyprus as a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan also warned Cyprus that Turkey will \u201cretaliate even more strongly\u201d to any further search for oil and gas resources in the Mediterranean. Turkey has already dispatched a research ship and frigates to the area in response to a Greek Cypriot search for fuel deposits.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey won\u2019t recognize Cyprus as EU presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey &#8211; Turkey\u2019s prime minister says his country will not sit at the table with Cyprus if it assumes the European Union\u2019s presidency before a deal reunifying the ethnically split island is reached. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already warned that Turkey will freeze its relations with the bloc if Cyprus takes over the 27-member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,21],"tags":[7021],"class_list":["post-45360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus-trnc","category-eu-members","tag-eu-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45360","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=45360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}