{"id":141096,"date":"2017-12-11T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/ozgurgun-biased-stance-of-the-eu-is-the-biggest-factor-in-the-failure-to-resolve-the-cyprus-issue\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:12:27","slug":"ozgurgun-biased-stance-of-the-eu-is-the-biggest-factor-in-the-failure-to-resolve-the-cyprus-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ozgurgun-biased-stance-of-the-eu-is-the-biggest-factor-in-the-failure-to-resolve-the-cyprus-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn: \u201cBiased stance of the EU is the biggest factor in the failure to resolve the Cyprus issue\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn issued a statement regarding the visit of the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, who last week held meetings in South Cyprus but who did not cross over to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to meet with Turkish Cypriot officials. Prime Minister \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn described President Tajani\u2019s one-sided visit as \u201cnot a big surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn said that the European Union\u2019s bias in favour of Greece and Greek Cypriot side, both EU member states, is the biggest factor in the continued failure to resolve the Cyprus issue. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn noted that it was not possible to expect otherwise from an institution that had been willing to accept the Greek Cypriot side, immediately after their rejection of the Annan Plan, unilaterally into the EU. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn also highlight the negative attitude towards the Turkish Cypriots, who sincerely want a solution in Cyprus and have repeatedly voted in favour of a settlement. \u201cIf they said to the Greek Cypriots: strive for a settlement, then we will make you a member of the EU together with the Turkish Cypriots, a settlement would have been reached in Cyprus by now, but they did not,&#8221; said \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turning to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s recent official visit to Greece, Prime Minister \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn said that\u00a0it had been a very positive visit, but that some illogical statements were made by the Greek media and on the Greek Cypriot side describing Turkey as\u00a0an\u00a0&#8220;occupant\u201d. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn emphasized that Turkey is in Cyprus to protect the equal rights of Turkish Cypriots as a rightful founding partner on the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn issued a statement regarding the visit of the President of the European<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-141096","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\/141096","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=141096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}