{"id":138899,"date":"2015-09-04T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/akinci-works-for-opening-aplic-gate-could-be-completed-by-the-end-of-this-year\/"},"modified":"2015-09-04T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T08:20:47","slug":"akinci-works-for-opening-aplic-gate-could-be-completed-by-the-end-of-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/akinci-works-for-opening-aplic-gate-could-be-completed-by-the-end-of-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ak\u0131nc\u0131: \u201cWorks for opening Apl\u0131\u00e7 gate could be completed by the end of this year\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 stated that works to open the Apl\u0131\u00e7 gate, for reciprocal crossings, could be completed by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a reception, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 reminded of his promise regarding the opening of Apli\u00e7 gate and said that during his meeting with the Greek Cypriot Leader Nikos Anastasiades held on 28 May within the framework of the negotiations continuing to find a settlement in Cyprus, they reached an agreement on opening the Apli\u00e7 gate for crossings in the West and Derinya gate in the East. \u00a0 Expressing that alternatives were also offered about the crossings, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said that a second road was offered for the Apl\u0131\u00e7 gate but then the first idea was agreed upon to be implemented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Futhermore Ak\u0131nc\u0131 indicated that some military considerations exist on the crossing point which is planned to be opened in Derinya and technical works are continuing on this issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing out that the crossing points can be opened only by mutual consent, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said \u201cOne day, these gates will be opened by a reconciliation because the political will exists and its requirements will be fulfilled\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ak\u0131nc\u0131 also reminded that a minefield in the area should be cleaned in order to open the Apl\u0131\u00e7 gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 stated that works to open the Apl\u0131\u00e7 gate, for reciprocal crossings, could be<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}