{"id":141108,"date":"2017-12-21T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/pace-representative-caglar-calls-for-turkish-to-be-accepted-as-an-official-eu-language\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T10:21:35","slug":"pace-representative-caglar-calls-for-turkish-to-be-accepted-as-an-official-eu-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/pace-representative-caglar-calls-for-turkish-to-be-accepted-as-an-official-eu-language\/","title":{"rendered":"PACE representative \u00c7a\u011flar calls for Turkish to be accepted as an official EU language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CTP deputy and TRNC PACE Representative Mehmet \u00c7a\u011flar attended meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) recently. At the meetings, \u00c7a\u011flar stressed that Turkish is an official language of the \u2018Republic of Cyprus\u2019. Despite this, he added, Greek Cypriots did not confirm Turkish as an official language when they were accepted for full membership of the EU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00c7a\u011flar attended the meetings with UBP Deputy Erdal \u00d6zcenk.\u00a0 Speaking at the meeting of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, \u00c7a\u011flar stated that Turkish Cypriots\u2019 cultural assets and identities are ignored, and this illegal and unfair stance should be rectified as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00c7a\u011flar recalled that Turkish is one of the three official languages of the \u2018Republic of Cyprus\u2019, which was established in 1960 on the basis of partnership between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whilst the Greek Cypriots failed to recognise Turkish as an official language, \u00c7a\u011flar said that the cultural identity and assets of the Turkish Cypriots have also so far been ignored, and that it is important to compensate this unfair and illegal stance against the Turkish Cypriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTP deputy and TRNC PACE Representative Mehmet \u00c7a\u011flar attended meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the<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-141108","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\/141108","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=141108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}