{"id":140060,"date":"2016-07-21T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/president-akinci-if-a-solution-is-not-reached-in-2016-we-may-face-unforeseen-problems-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2016-07-21T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:31:12","slug":"president-akinci-if-a-solution-is-not-reached-in-2016-we-may-face-unforeseen-problems-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-akinci-if-a-solution-is-not-reached-in-2016-we-may-face-unforeseen-problems-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ak\u0131nc\u0131: \u201cIf a solution is not reached in 2016, we may face unforeseen problems in 2017\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the Peace and Freedom celebrations on 20\u00a0July, President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 expressed his belief that both sides bear a serious responsibility to find a solution to the Cyprus problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said, \u201cIn the event we do not find a solution in 2016, initiatives to start drilling for natural gas in early 2017 will result in mounting tension across the island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President affirmed that it is also important for all Turkish Cypriots that Turkey continues to develop as a modern, democratic and secular state, according to the principles of Atat\u00fcrk. This, he noted, is necessary for stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is an intensive period of negotiations ahead, President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 declared, and there will be 3 more Leaders\u2019 meetings in the last week of July. According to the President, their goal in these meetings is to reach a consensus on the current points of divergence, with a view towards finding a solution by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Peace and Freedom celebrations on 20\u00a0July, President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 expressed his belief that both<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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140060","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=140060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}