{"id":767,"date":"2008-07-20T13:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=767"},"modified":"2014-01-01T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:56:15","slug":"putin-focusing-on-relations-with-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/20\/putin-focusing-on-relations-with-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin focusing on relations with Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> <\/h1>\n<div id=\"curPhotoBlock\" class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"caption\">Former Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on May 8, 2008.<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">(UPI Photo\/Anatoli Zhdanov)<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\"><span id=\"intelliTXT\"> MOSCOW,  July 19 (UPI) &#8212; Russian Prime Minister <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Vladimir_Putin\/\">Vladimir Putin<\/span> spoke with his Turkish counterpart Saturday in an effort to improve relations between the two nations, a spokesman says.Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin focused on economic and trade relations while speaking with Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ITAR-TASS reported.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">The two prime ministers also discussed a group of young Russian travelers who endured a litany of problems during a visit to Turkey.<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\"><span id=\"intelliTXT\">Erdogan assured Putin a Turkish official was en route to the Turkish city of Antayla to assist the young travelers with any difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov told ITAR-TASS that Putin wants Russian Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko to play a more active role in Russian tourism to ensure such international travel problems do not occur in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Source: United Press International, July 19, 2008<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on May 8, 2008. (UPI Photo\/Anatoli Zhdanov) MOSCOW, July 19 (UPI) &#8212; Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke with his Turkish counterpart Saturday in an effort to improve relations between the two nations, a spokesman says.Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin focused on economic and trade relations while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":38128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}