{"id":140944,"date":"2017-09-06T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T07:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/ozgurgun-our-people-have-shown-the-world-that-they-will-not-accept-any-captivity\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T07:51:23","slug":"ozgurgun-our-people-have-shown-the-world-that-they-will-not-accept-any-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ozgurgun-our-people-have-shown-the-world-that-they-will-not-accept-any-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn: &#8220;Our people have shown the world that they will not accept any captivity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 43rd anniversary of the Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak Resistance was commemorated yesterday, with remembrance ceremonies held for those who lost their lives defending the village.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his address to mark the occasion, Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn stressed that the Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak Resistance was one of the most significant events in the Turkish Cypriot struggle for existence. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn stated, \u201cThis resistance provides an important opportunity to understand and remember the challenging and struggles for the continuation of Turkish presence on this island, and illustrates how far the Turkish Cypriot people have come. By risking their lives, our people have shown the world that they will not accept any captivity despite the difficult circumstances\u00a0of the\u00a0Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak Resistance, an honourable event in our history. Turkish Cypriots have achieved a free and independent state\u00a0thanks to their will, determination, and their faith and trust in our \u00a0Motherland Turkey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn expressed the importance of passing down &#8220;legends&#8221; such as the Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak Resistance to new generations stating, \u201cI think that the current facts must be accepted on the Cyprus issue \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 it must be understood that we will \u00a0never concede our sovereignty \u00a0or Motherland Turkey&#8217;s guarantee.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 43rd anniversary of the Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak Resistance was commemorated yesterday, with remembrance ceremonies held for those<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-140944","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\/140944","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=140944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}