{"id":56386,"date":"2012-09-03T10:29:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T07:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=56386"},"modified":"2014-01-07T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:02:20","slug":"turkeys-eu-minister-invites-christofias-to-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/09\/03\/turkeys-eu-minister-invites-christofias-to-football-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s EU minister invites Christofias to football game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish EU Minister Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f has invited Greek Cypriot President Demetris Christofias to a football game in Istanbul with a message he posted on his personal Twitter account today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-56389\" title=\"n_29192_4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/n_29192_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/n_29192_4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/n_29192_4-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>&#8220;[President Christofias] was looking for a reason to come to Istanbul. He should come with [Turkish Cypriot President Dervi\u015f] Ero\u011flu for Fenerbah\u00e7e&#8217;s match with Limassol,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f tweeted today, inviting Christofias to the Europa League encounter between Fenerbah\u00e7e and Greek Cypriot AEL Limassol in Istanbul on Nov. 8. Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f added that he would buy a round of coffee for the two leaders after the game ends.<\/p>\n<p>Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f also said Greek Cypriots should seek help from Turkish Cyprus if they were not sure whether they could ensure the safety of the players of Fenerbah\u00e7e for the two teams\u2019 other Europa League clash, an Oct. 25 tilt that will be played in Greek Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greek Cypriots have a poor record in protecting Turkish teams. They should seek help from Turkish Rep. of Northern Cyprus 4 Fenerbahce game,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>September\/02\/2012<\/p>\n<p>via TURKEY &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s EU minister invites Christofias to football game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish EU Minister Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f has invited Greek Cypriot President Demetris Christofias to a football game in Istanbul with a message he posted on his personal Twitter account today. &#8220;[President Christofias] was looking for a reason to come to Istanbul. He should come with [Turkish Cypriot President Dervi\u015f] Ero\u011flu for Fenerbah\u00e7e&#8217;s match with Limassol,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":56389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3996],"tags":[4376,5629],"class_list":["post-56386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","category-sport","tag-christofias","tag-fenerbahce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56386","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=56386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}