{"id":4641,"date":"2008-09-25T01:13:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/25\/italy-solve-cyprus-before-turkey-joins-eu\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:51","slug":"italy-solve-cyprus-before-turkey-joins-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/25\/italy-solve-cyprus-before-turkey-joins-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Solve Cyprus before Turkey joins EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece: Italy&#8217;s president says the island of Cyprus must be reunited before Turkey is allowed to join the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>President Giorgio Napolitano made the remarks while on a three-day official visit to Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Rival Cypriot leaders are currently holding reunification talks on the Mediterranean island which has been divided since a Turkish invasion in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Napolitano holds a largely ceremonial post. He made the comments Tuesday after talks with Greek President Karolos Papoulias.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Save up to 72% on morning home<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/09\/23\/europe\/EU-Greece-Italy.php\">Italy: Solve Cyprus before Turkey joins EU &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece: Italy&#8217;s president says the island of Cyprus must be reunited before Turkey is allowed to join the European Union. President Giorgio Napolitano made the remarks while on a three-day official visit to Greece. Rival Cypriot leaders are currently holding reunification talks on the Mediterranean island which has been divided since a Turkish invasion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,211,679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","category-cyprus-trnc","category-italy-eu-members-european-countries-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","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=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}