{"id":139191,"date":"2015-11-18T12:13:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T10:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/president-akinci-rebuffs-reception-with-german-foreign-minister\/"},"modified":"2015-11-18T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T10:13:54","slug":"president-akinci-rebuffs-reception-with-german-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-akinci-rebuffs-reception-with-german-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 rebuffs reception with German Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 did not attend a reception in honor of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday night because his request that the two sides be represented at the event on an equal footing was not met satisfactorily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reception was hosted by the German Ambassador to Cyprus at the Chateau Status restaurant in the Nicosia buffer zone, and both President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and the Greek Cypriot Leader Nikos Anastasiades were invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a written statement, Presidential Spokesman Bar\u0131\u015f Burcu said that, despite a fruitful meeting with Steinmeier earlier in the day, President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 did not consider it proper to attend the reception, much as he would have liked to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Burcu added that the two communities\u2019 equal status is a \u201cknown reality\u201d, and this is also reflected in addressing the two sides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But despite reminding the German Embassy of this \u201creality\u201d in advance, a satisfactory response was not forthcoming, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Burcu said that, according to the information available to the Turkish Cypriot side, Anastasiades would be addressed as the \u2018President of the Republic\u2019, and President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 as the \u2018Turkish Cypriot leader\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this reason, President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 decided not to attend the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 did not attend a reception in honor of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier<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-139191","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\/139191","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=139191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}