{"id":66395,"date":"2013-02-24T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T09:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=66395"},"modified":"2023-04-06T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:23:53","slug":"germany-backs-opening-new-chapter-in-eu-turkey-talks-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/02\/24\/germany-backs-opening-new-chapter-in-eu-turkey-talks-merkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany backs opening \u2018new chapter\u2019 in EU-Turkey talks: Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel backs opening a new chapter to continue talks on whether Turkey should join the European Union. (Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>By ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she backs opening a new chapter in stalled talks on Turkey\u2019s membership of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being skeptical about Turkey\u2019s membership herself, Merkel says she is willing to continue negotiations with Ankara without prejudice as to the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of Europe\u2019s biggest economy spoke in pre-recorded video broadcast Saturday ahead of her trip to Turkey Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel is scheduled to visit German troops operating NATO missile batteries in Kahramanmaras near the Syrian border on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, she is due to confer with members of the Turkish government in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>via Germany backs opening \u2018new chapter\u2019 in EU-Turkey talks: Merkel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel backs opening a new chapter to continue talks on whether Turkey should join the European Union. (Reuters) By ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she backs opening a new chapter in stalled talks on Turkey\u2019s membership of the European Union. Despite being skeptical about Turkey\u2019s membership herself, Merkel says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":634077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3520],"class_list":["post-66395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-merkel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66395","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=66395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}