{"id":140627,"date":"2017-04-05T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/ozgurgun-the-negotiating-table-to-return-to-is-the-one-in-geneva\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T09:26:02","slug":"ozgurgun-the-negotiating-table-to-return-to-is-the-one-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ozgurgun-the-negotiating-table-to-return-to-is-the-one-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn: \u201cThe negotiating table to return to is the one in Geneva\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on a private TV channel, Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn said that the negotiations process can only be resumed in Geneva from where it was stalled, and only after the Enosis decision taken by the Greek Cypriot parliament is overturned.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister argued that that the Greek Cypriot side\u2019s decision to commemorate the Enosis plebiscite was a confirmation of their intention not to return to the negotiating table while the five-party process in Geneva was on hold., \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn said that the Enosis decision was a clear statement which actually meant, \u201cwe do not have any intention to negotiate or reach an agreement; our intention is to annex the island to Greece and we are continuing negotiations unwillingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister noted that President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 did not leave the negotiating table, that both the Greek Cypriot side and Greece wanted to postpone the process, and that the UN and Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide showed an insincere stance with regards to this matter, accusing the Turkish Cypriot side for the failure of talks. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn added that if the Greek Cypriot Parliament shifts decision-making power to commemorate Enosis\u00a0to\u00a0the Ministry of Education, the situation could be described as \u2018tragicomic\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on a private TV channel, Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn said that the negotiations process can<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-140627","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\/140627","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=140627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}