{"id":138975,"date":"2015-09-21T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/republic-of-cyprus-is-characterized-as-banana-republic\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:18:58","slug":"republic-of-cyprus-is-characterized-as-banana-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/republic-of-cyprus-is-characterized-as-banana-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRepublic of Cyprus\u201d is characterized as \u201cBanana Republic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greek Cypriot daily Politis reported that the Greek Cypriots are not happy with the so called \u201cRepublic of Cyprus\u201d and almost half of them characterized the Republic as a banana republic, according to the survey conducted throughout South Cyprus by Nicosia University between 9-11 September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the survey; while 41% of the participants characterized the \u201cRepublic of Cyprus\u201d as a \u201cBanana Republic\u201d, 50% assessed the Republic as being \u201csemi democratic\u201d and having an \u201cauthoritarian political system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the news; the participants marked the democracy 5.3 out of 10 and South Cyprus was placed as 73rd among 167 countries in the world in terms of democracy. 92% of the participants stated that they prefer the democratic system rather than the other regimes. While 53% of the participants stated that the Republic of Cyprus has lots of problems and deficiencies, the other 33% mentioned the Republic\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The participants expressed that the most democratic period was the presidency of Tasos Papadopulos and the worst period in terms of democracy was the presidency of Dimitris Hristofyas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Cypriot daily Politis reported that the Greek Cypriots are not happy with the so called<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-138975","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\/138975","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=138975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}