{"id":141213,"date":"2018-03-19T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/president-mustafa-akinci-there-is-no-reason-not-to-simultaneously-open-the-derinya-and-aplic-border-checkpoints\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:46:45","slug":"president-mustafa-akinci-there-is-no-reason-not-to-simultaneously-open-the-derinya-and-aplic-border-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-mustafa-akinci-there-is-no-reason-not-to-simultaneously-open-the-derinya-and-aplic-border-checkpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131: \u201cThere is no reason not to simultaneously open the Derinya and Apl\u0131\u00e7 border checkpoints\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 has said that there should not be much more delay to opening these checkpoints. He added that there is 3 km. road in Apl\u0131\u00e7, South Cyprus, which should be asphalted, and said that if works on the road are completed within three months, both border checkpoints can be opened simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ak\u0131nc\u0131 was in Derinya, examining the works taking place prior to opening the checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stressing that rumours that the Turkish Cypriot side does not want Derinya checkpoint to be opened are unfounded, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said that there have been delays from both sides. He emphasised that any reservations from the Turkish Cypriot side regarding Derinya and from the Greek Cypriot side about the Apl\u0131\u00e7 Checkpoint had been overcome. He said that the main delay had been in the building of a 3 km. road in Apl\u0131\u00e7, South Cyprus, and said that in three years, highways had been built but the Apl\u0131\u00e7 road had not been completed. Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said that unfortunately, the Greek Cypriot authority responsible for checkpoints is trying to convert the current situation to a mutual blaming campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 has said that there should not be much more delay to opening these checkpoints.<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-141213","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\/141213","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=141213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}