{"id":140247,"date":"2016-10-20T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/akinci-met-with-turkish-minister-of-transportation-maritime-affairs-and-communication-arslan\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T07:20:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T04:20:38","slug":"akinci-met-with-turkish-minister-of-transportation-maritime-affairs-and-communication-arslan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/akinci-met-with-turkish-minister-of-transportation-maritime-affairs-and-communication-arslan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ak\u0131nc\u0131 met with Turkish Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication Arslan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 met with the Turkish Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication Ahmet Arslan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking during the meeting, President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said that the Turkish Cypriot side is participating in the Cyprus negotiations \u2013 which started 48 years ago \u2013 in good faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the Cyprus problem has reached a point of saturation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A settlement that is in the interest of both sides would provide many advantages to everyone, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 stated, and the last two and a half months are crucial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ak\u0131nc\u0131 also underlined that research has proved that the most reasonable way to transfer natural gas exploited in the south side of the island to Europe is via Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ak\u0131nc\u0131 stated that the TRNC needs to develop transportation and communication infrastructure in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ercan Airport is important as it is the TRNC\u2019s gateway to the world, and Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said that he desires to see the airport receive a much needed upgrade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Turkish Minister of Transportation, Maritime and Communication Ahmet Arslan stated that Turkey supports the negotiation process and that he hoped that the Greek Cypriot side will also continue to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 met with the Turkish Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication Ahmet Arslan.<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-140247","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\/140247","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=140247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}