{"id":141225,"date":"2018-03-28T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/ozersay-the-eus-attitude-ignores-the-interests-of-the-turkish-cypriot-side\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:00:27","slug":"ozersay-the-eus-attitude-ignores-the-interests-of-the-turkish-cypriot-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ozersay-the-eus-attitude-ignores-the-interests-of-the-turkish-cypriot-side\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zersay: &#8220;The EU\u2019s attitude ignores the interests of the Turkish Cypriot side&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the General Council of the TRNC Assembly, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret \u00d6zersay said that the EU had assumed an attitude which ignored the interests of Turkish Cypriots, after the Greek Cypriot side became a member of the EU. \u00d6zersay added that this attitude harms the standing of the EU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00d6zersay also stated that the EU was adopting resolutions by hiding behind the term \u2018solidarity\u2019. He drew attention to the decision taken by the International Court of Justice against Turkey regarding the issue of maritime zones, particularly in such a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;These statements are not even funny. The issue is not a legal one, it is political\u201d said \u00d6zersay. Furthermore, \u00d6zersay gave the Direct Trade Regulation as an example of a law which has \u201cfallen victim to the political bargaining&#8221; and noted that the decisions taken on such issues were always political.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the General Council of the TRNC Assembly, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign<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-141225","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\/141225","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=141225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}