{"id":66926,"date":"2013-03-01T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T11:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=66926"},"modified":"2014-01-08T00:32:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T22:32:50","slug":"syrian-opposition-postpones-istanbul-meeting-meant-to-choose-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/03\/01\/syrian-opposition-postpones-istanbul-meeting-meant-to-choose-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian opposition postpones Istanbul meeting meant to choose prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group has postponed an upcoming meeting in Turkey where it was to choose a prime minister for a transitional government in rebel-held areas.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66927\" alt=\"Free Syrian Army fighters from the Knights of the North brigade move to reconnaissance a Syrian army forces base of al-Karmid, at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Syrian...   (Associated Press)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/getimage.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free Syrian Army fighters from the Knights of the North brigade move to reconnaissance a Syrian army forces base of al-Karmid, at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Syrian&#8230; (Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">The Syrian National Coalition said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Thursday that the March 2 conference in Istanbul was canceled for &#8220;logistical reasons.&#8221; It said it would announce a new date as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The opposition umbrella group has struggled to agree on the leadership of a transitional administration since the Coalition was formed late last year. The group has met on previous occasions to select an interim prime minister, but has failed to reach a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes despite a U.S. pledge to provide an additional $60 million in assistance to the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>via Syrian opposition postpones Istanbul meeting meant to choose prime minister &#8211; 2\/28\/2013 9:01:46 AM | Newser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group has postponed an upcoming meeting in Turkey where it was to choose a prime minister for a transitional government in rebel-held areas. The Syrian National Coalition said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Thursday that the March 2 conference in Istanbul was canceled for &#8220;logistical reasons.&#8221; It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":66927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[7190],"class_list":["post-66926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria","tag-syrian-opposition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66926","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=66926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}