{"id":45400,"date":"2011-10-16T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=45400"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:20:54","slug":"westerwelle-urges-eu-to-be-fair-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/16\/westerwelle-urges-eu-to-be-fair-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Westerwelle urges EU to be fair to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45402\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45402\" title=\"westerwelle-urges-eu-to-be-fair-to-turkey-2011-10-13_l\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/westerwelle-urges-eu-to-be-fair-to-turkey-2011-10-13_l.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish Foreign Minister Davuto\u011flu (R) hosts his German counterpart in Istanbul. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah G\u00dcREL\" width=\"414\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/westerwelle-urges-eu-to-be-fair-to-turkey-2011-10-13_l.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/westerwelle-urges-eu-to-be-fair-to-turkey-2011-10-13_l-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkish Foreign Minister Davuto\u011flu (R) hosts his German counterpart in Istanbul. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah G\u00dcREL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has criticized the European Union in its negotiation process with Turkey, saying it should act more fairly during the accession of candidate\u2019s negotiations to join the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEuropean Union should act respectful and fair to Turkey in the negotiation process,\u201d Westerwelle said during a visit to Turkey yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Westerwelle met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu in Istanbul yesterday, with Westerwelle and Davuto\u011flu later holding a joint pres conference.<\/p>\n<p>Westerwelle said Turkey\u2019s accession process to the EU should go on without a break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the train has stopped, it is very difficult to get it moving again. Therefore, the train should not stop and the next chapter, which is the competition chapter, should open soon,\u201d Westerwelle said, adding that they talked about the German foundation issue during his meeting with Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish prime minister has accused German foundations of indirectly supporting the local administrations run by the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK).<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu corrected the question of a journalist during the press conference regarding the German foundations and said Erdo\u011fan did not say the German foundations were financing the terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Westerwelle said they cleared away any misunderstandings regarding the issue of German foundations. \u201cBoth German foundations and German banks are highly appreciated in Turkey,\u201d Westerwelle said.<\/p>\n<p>via Westerwelle urges EU to be fair to Turkey &#8211; Hurriyet Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; H\u00fcrriyet Daily News German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has criticized the European Union in its negotiation process with Turkey, saying it should act more fairly during the accession of candidate\u2019s negotiations to join the bloc. The \u201cEuropean Union should act respectful and fair to Turkey in the negotiation process,\u201d Westerwelle said during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":45402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[3729],"class_list":["post-45400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-germany","tag-westerwelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400","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=45400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}