{"id":140915,"date":"2017-08-15T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/ozgurgun-the-incidents-of-august-1974-are-the-most-painful-and-bitter-memories\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:26:10","slug":"ozgurgun-the-incidents-of-august-1974-are-the-most-painful-and-bitter-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ozgurgun-the-incidents-of-august-1974-are-the-most-painful-and-bitter-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn: &#8220;The incidents of August 1974 are the most painful and bitter memories&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn said that the massacres in Murata\u011fa, Sandallar and Atl\u0131lar, which were commemorated in a ceremony, were \u201cthe most painful and bitter memories\u201d in the history of the Turkish Cypriots.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn stated that the Turkish Cypriot people will never forget the massacre of 126 innocent and defenceless people, from a 26 day old baby to a 95 year old. He stressed that the people living in Murata\u011fa, Atl\u0131lar and Sandallar 43 years ago were not the first victims of the Enosis mission of the terrorist organization EOKA, but that they will be the last as no other massacre will take place as long as the Turkish Armed Forces stay on the island to ensure the security of the Turkish Cypriot people.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the Turkish Cypriot people know what the real intention of the Greek Cypriot side is when they insist on &#8220;zero troops, zero guarantees&#8221;. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn continued, &#8220;We won\u2019t be stuck in the past, but we should take lessons from the past. We must work to create a safe future for the next generation. Our state and our martyrs are the expression of our sovereignty, of our freedom &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn said that the massacres in Murata\u011fa, Sandallar and Atl\u0131lar, which were commemorated<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-140915","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\/140915","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=140915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}