{"id":140874,"date":"2017-07-21T11:09:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/yildirim-greek-cypriots-proved-they-do-not-want-to-reach-a-solution\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:09:46","slug":"yildirim-greek-cypriots-proved-they-do-not-want-to-reach-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/yildirim-greek-cypriots-proved-they-do-not-want-to-reach-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m: Greek Cypriots proved they do not want to reach a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m yesterday attended a ceremony held at Dr. Faz\u0131l K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck Boulevard in Lefko\u015fa, on the occasion of the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> Anniversary of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> of July Peace Operation.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech,\u00a0Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m referred to the Cyprus negotiation process, saying that Turkey would continue to protect the rights of Turkish Cypriots in the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a serious contradiction and injustice that Turkish Cypriots have paid for the uncompromising approach of the\u00a0Greek Cypriot\u00a0side for years,\u201d Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkey believes that the energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean are an opportunity but the one-sided steps taken by the Greek\u00a0Cypriot side are untimely, dangerous and encouraging the lack of a solution,\u201d Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed to the \u201cunfair steps\u201d taken by the Greek\u00a0Cypriot\u00a0side in encouraging a deadlock in the talks.\u00a0Negotiations between the Turkish and Greek\u00a0Cypriot leaders to reunify the island broke down in Switzerland on 6th July after the United Nations failed to broker a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>The talks took on an additional dimension through the growing importance of energy reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, and in particular, around the island.<\/p>\n<p>Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m underlined that steps should be taken as soon as possible to end the unfair isolations imposed on the TRNC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m yesterday attended a ceremony held at Dr. Faz\u0131l K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck Boulevard in<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-140874","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\/140874","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=140874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}