{"id":69454,"date":"2013-04-11T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T07:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69454"},"modified":"2014-01-08T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:35:13","slug":"turkey-looks-to-new-leadership-for-cyprus-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/11\/turkey-looks-to-new-leadership-for-cyprus-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey looks to new leadership for Cyprus breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY STANISLAVA GAYDAZHIEVA | APRIL 10, 2013 &#8211; 5:04PM<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69455\" alt=\"Turkish minister EU affairs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Turkish-minister-EU-affairs.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Turkish-minister-EU-affairs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Turkish-minister-EU-affairs-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f, believes that a breakthrough between Greek and Turkish Cypriots can become a reality under the mandate of the newly elected president, Nicos Anastasiades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we have an elected president on the south of the island who campaigned for a \u201cyes\u201d vote during the Annan plan\u201d, pointed out Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f at an event organised by the European Policy Centre on Turkey\u2019s struggle with terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>He welcomed Anastasiades\u2019 election and said that it \u201cmight give a new window of opportunity to see a solution, a breakthrough, between the Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f further said that the Cyprus dispute was not a prerequisite for membership of Cyprus to the European Union (EU) and should, therefore, \u201cnot become a prerequisite for membership of Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish minister of EU affairs also stated that Turkey would support and approve any solution the Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots agreed on, as long as the solution was based on &#8220;political equality&#8221; in the island. He said that the authorities in Ankara were willing to open Turkey\u2019s airports, sea ports and airspace to Greek Cypriots, if the Council decision from 2004, calling for direct trade with Northern Cyprus, was implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said that if Cyprus had accepted the Annan plan, the United States of Cyprus would probably be one of the largest economically growing countries and the most prosperous EU nation at the moment. In his view, the lack of progress on finding a solution to the dispute and current economic situation in Greece were the main reasons that no investments were made in the south of the island and only some investments in the northern part.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s chief negotiator expressed hope that Anastasiades will \u201creach out to his Turkish Cypriot neighbours and pave the way for a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey looks to new leadership for Cyprus breakthrough | New Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY STANISLAVA GAYDAZHIEVA | APRIL 10, 2013 &#8211; 5:04PM Turkey\u2019s Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f, believes that a breakthrough between Greek and Turkish Cypriots can become a reality under the mandate of the newly elected president, Nicos Anastasiades. \u201cFor the first time, we have an elected president on the south of the island who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[4338],"class_list":["post-69454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus-trnc","tag-bagis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69454","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=69454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}