{"id":53447,"date":"2012-05-10T21:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=53447"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:44:55","slug":"bagis-turkey-changes-and-so-does-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/05\/10\/bagis-turkey-changes-and-so-does-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagis: Turkey Changes and So Does EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish European Union Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis has said that Turkey had changed and so had the EU.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53449\" title=\"051012-bagis-turkey-changes-and-so-does-eu-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/051012-bagis-turkey-changes-and-so-does-eu-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Turkey is sine qua non for EU, Bagis said at a meeting titled &#8220;European Perspectives For Turkish Foreign Policy&#8221; organized by Foundation of Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in Ankara on Thursday, adding that Turkey is lying at the junction for EU.<\/p>\n<p>Egemen Bagis said that Turkey, with its growing economy, became more important for European countries and became a very successful market.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the EU project has been the biggest social change for Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Negotiator Bagis said, &#8220;Turkey expected to start negotiations on new chapters, and Turkey would never ever give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EU reforms made our country more livable,&#8221; Bagis noted.<\/p>\n<p>SETA&#8217;s Foreign Policy Director Talip Kucukcan said, &#8220;we have some question marks about Europe&#8217;s Turkish Foreign Policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkey has an objective and rational foreign policy rather than being cultural and ideologic,&#8221; Kucukcan added.<\/p>\n<p>AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish European Union Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis has said that Turkey had changed and so had the EU. Turkey is sine qua non for EU, Bagis said at a meeting titled &#8220;European Perspectives For Turkish Foreign Policy&#8221; organized by Foundation of Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in Ankara on Thursday, adding that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":53449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[7925],"class_list":["post-53447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","tag-turkey-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53447","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=53447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}