{"id":51683,"date":"2012-03-02T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=51683"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:34:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:34:55","slug":"turkey-will-ignore-cyprus-as-eu-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/03\/02\/turkey-will-ignore-cyprus-as-eu-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey will ignore Cyprus as EU president"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51684\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51684\" title=\"bagis8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bagis8.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Bagis made the remarks during a speech at the London School of Economics on Wednesday\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bagis8.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bagis8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Bagis made the remarks during a speech at the London School of Economics on Wednesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TURKEY&#8217;S EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis has again said that Turkey would ignore the Republic of Cyprus, as EU president, adding &#8220;We will not take it as interlocutor as the rotating president of the EU this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bagis made the remarks during a speech at the London School of Economics on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Turkey\u2019s stance towards the Republic of Cyprus which will undertake the rotating presidency of the EU in July, Bagis said that \u201cTurkey would ignore the Greek Cypriot administration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bagis said: \u201cWe hope there will be a united Cyprus till July\u201d, adding that \u201cif there was not a united Cyprus till that date, Turkey would pursue its relations with European Commission, European Parliament and EU member states, but ignore the rotating president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEU candidate countries contact with EU president only if a chapter is opened to negotiations or during council partnership meetings\u201d, said Bagis.<\/p>\n<p>He also said: \u201cTurkey has 52 years of relationship with the EU, thus, six months is not a long time for Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Famagusta Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TURKEY&#8217;S EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis has again said that Turkey would ignore the Republic of Cyprus, as EU president, adding &#8220;We will not take it as interlocutor as the rotating president of the EU this year.&#8221; Mr. Bagis made the remarks during a speech at the London School of Economics on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":51684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,211,21,922],"tags":[4338,9723,985],"class_list":["post-51683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","category-cyprus-trnc","category-eu-members","category-world","tag-bagis","tag-cyprus","tag-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683","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=51683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}