{"id":8986,"date":"2009-02-06T04:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:35:49","slug":"christofias-turkey-cannot-join-eu-until-troops-out-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/02\/06\/christofias-turkey-cannot-join-eu-until-troops-out-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Christofias: &#8220;Turkey cannot join EU until troops out &#8211; Cyprus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thu Feb 5, 2009 2:15pm GMT<\/p>\n<p>NICOSIA, Feb 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said on Thursday that Turkey would not be able to join the European Union as long as it kept troops stationed in northern Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not possible for Turkey to be accepted as a member of the union while continuing the occupation of Cyprus,&#8221; he told reporters. (Reporting by Michele Kambas; editing by Elizabeth Piper)<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUKL5762933\">Reuters<\/span>, Feb 5, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thu Feb 5, 2009 2:15pm GMT NICOSIA, Feb 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said on Thursday that Turkey would not be able to join the European Union as long as it kept troops stationed in northern Cyprus. &#8220;It&#8217;s not possible for Turkey to be accepted as a member of the union while continuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,21],"tags":[1049],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus-trnc","category-eu-members","tag-demetris-christofias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","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=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}