{"id":141014,"date":"2017-10-16T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/kahraman-turkey-is-not-an-occupying-state\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:52:26","slug":"kahraman-turkey-is-not-an-occupying-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/kahraman-turkey-is-not-an-occupying-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahraman: \u201cTurkey is not an occupying state\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing speakers and parliamentarians at the 137th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Turkey\u2019s Speaker of the Grand National Assembly \u0130smail Kahraman responded to Greek Cypriot and Armenian officials\u2019 comments on Turkey\u2019s relationship with the TRNC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing out that Turkey had always acted in accordance with the Zurich and London Agreements, Kahraman said: \u201cTurkey is not an occupying state. Cyprus has not been occupied since 1974. The Zurich and London Agreements name Turkey and the UK as guarantor powers. Turkey is on the island in accordance with these agreements. Referring to the Turkish presence as an \u201coccupation\u201d is misleading. A military coup was staged on the island and Turkey used its guarantor rights in accordance with the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing speakers and parliamentarians at the 137th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Turkey\u2019s Speaker 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-141014","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\/141014","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=141014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}