{"id":140647,"date":"2017-04-12T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/foreign-minister-tahsin-ertugruloglu-the-enosis-decision-has-not-been-eliminated\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T08:52:07","slug":"foreign-minister-tahsin-ertugruloglu-the-enosis-decision-has-not-been-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/foreign-minister-tahsin-ertugruloglu-the-enosis-decision-has-not-been-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu: \u201cThe Enosis decision has not been eliminated\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the General Council of Parliament, Foreign Minister Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu referred to the resumption of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu stated that while the Greek Cypriot Parliament\u2019s Enosis decision is understood by many to have been eliminated, he did not understand how people have interpreted this to be the case. He pointed out that the only change has been the transfer of decision-making authority from Parliament to the Greek Cypriot Minister of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu also noted that the Turkish Cypriot people were being misinformed by reports that the Enosis decision had been overturned.<\/p>\n<p>Speculating on the likelihood that the negotiations will continue with a chance of success, even if the decision was overturned, Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu pointed to Anastasiades\u2019 statement that said \u201cminorities cannot be equalized with the majority&#8221;. He also pointed out that there was no evidence that the Greek Cypriots accepted political equality with the Turkish Cypriots in the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu continued, \u201cThe negotiations have been continuing for 50 years, and the Greek Cypriots have been continuing their politics outside the negotiation room. They have not intended to conclude negotiations and go to a referendum\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Speaking at the General Council of Parliament, Foreign Minister Ertu\u011frulo\u011flu referred to the resumption of<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-140647","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\/140647","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=140647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}