{"id":140521,"date":"2017-02-20T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/straw-we-made-a-big-mistake-by-allowing-cyprus-to-become-a-member-of-the-eu-which-put-more-cards-into-greek-cypriots-hands\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:02:16","slug":"straw-we-made-a-big-mistake-by-allowing-cyprus-to-become-a-member-of-the-eu-which-put-more-cards-into-greek-cypriots-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/straw-we-made-a-big-mistake-by-allowing-cyprus-to-become-a-member-of-the-eu-which-put-more-cards-into-greek-cypriots-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Straw: &#8220;We made a big mistake by allowing Cyprus to become a member of the EU, which put more cards into Greek Cypriots hands&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has criticised the decision to allow South Cyprus to become a full member of the EU, and expressed hopes that the peace talks will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to guests at the World Tourism Forum at the \u0130stanbul Congress Centre last week, Straw responded to a question about the Cyprus talks by saying: &#8220;My views about Cyprus make me more popular in the TRNC, although I can\u2019t\u00a0 say the same thing for South Cyprus. It is my view that we made a big mistake by allowing Cyprus to become a member of the EU in 2004, a decision that was taken during Papadopoulos\u2019s term. This decision put more cards into\u00a0 Greek Cypriots\u2019 hands, and thus their willingness to change the status quo also decreased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Straw expressed his hope that the peace talks will resume, adding that, \u201cIt is always beneficial to have moderate leaders in peace talks.\u201d However, he also raised the issue of the division of Cyprus, saying. \u201cThe international community should clearly say to the Greek Cypriots: \u201cIf you do not start negotiations, we will approve the division of Cyprus.\u201d If such a thing is said, negotiations may re-start faster. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has criticised the decision to allow South Cyprus to become<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-140521","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\/140521","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=140521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}