{"id":140871,"date":"2017-07-21T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/muftuoglu-the-peace-operation-was-carried-out-within-the-framework-of-international-treaties-and-obligations\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:06:43","slug":"muftuoglu-the-peace-operation-was-carried-out-within-the-framework-of-international-treaties-and-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/muftuoglu-the-peace-operation-was-carried-out-within-the-framework-of-international-treaties-and-obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fcft\u00fco\u011flu : \u201cThe Peace Operation was carried out within the framework of international treaties and obligations&#8221;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu described the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias\u2019s statement regarding the 43rd anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation as &#8220;unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Kotzias issued a statement which said that the intervention was &#8220;one of the most tragic pages in the history of Hellenism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said: &#8220;As the Prime Minister once again emphasized in Lefkosa today (yesterday), the Peace Operation was carried out within the framework of the rights and obligations of Turkey arising from international treaties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By taking the decision to intervene, Turkey prevented a large-scale massacre of the widely-outnumbered Turkish Cypriot people, and ensured that the ethnic violence and conflict on the islands would not be repeated again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a guarantor, Turkey showed the whole world that day that it would not allow Enosis (unification of Cyprus with Greece,) and that the Turkish Cypriots were not alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkey maintains its determination not to allow the common struggle of Greek Cypriots and Greece, expressed in the Greek Foreign Minister&#8217;s message, to threaten the peaceful existence and freedom of the Turkish Cypriot people,&#8221; Muftuoglu added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu described the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias\u2019s statement regarding the<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-140871","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\/140871","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=140871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}