{"id":5035,"date":"2008-10-01T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/10\/01\/cypriot-president-seeks-end-to-military-exercises\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:29:10","slug":"cypriot-president-seeks-end-to-military-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/10\/01\/cypriot-president-seeks-end-to-military-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Cypriot president seeks end to military exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRASBOURG, France: President Dimitris Christofias of Cyprus urged the U.N. and Turkish Cypriot leaders on Tuesday to support his call to abolish annual military exercises and to demilitarize Cyprus&#8217; divided capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Christofias said the moves would &#8220;improve the climate&#8221; and increase the chances of success in reunification talks with his Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat.<\/p>\n<p>The island of Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded in response to a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. Turkey keeps 35,000 troops in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, and a small number of Greek troops are stationed in the south. A U.N.-patrolled buffer zone separates the two communities.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/09\/30\/europe\/EU-Council-of-Europe-Cyprus.php\">Cypriot president seeks end to military exercises &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRASBOURG, France: President Dimitris Christofias of Cyprus urged the U.N. and Turkish Cypriot leaders on Tuesday to support his call to abolish annual military exercises and to demilitarize Cyprus&#8217; divided capital city. Christofias said the moves would &#8220;improve the climate&#8221; and increase the chances of success in reunification talks with his Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","category-cyprus-trnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}