{"id":141227,"date":"2018-03-29T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T08:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/turkish-president-erdogan-it-is-out-of-the-question-to-take-a-step-back-from-our-stance-on-hydrocarbon-resources-in-the-eastern-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T08:42:45","slug":"turkish-president-erdogan-it-is-out-of-the-question-to-take-a-step-back-from-our-stance-on-hydrocarbon-resources-in-the-eastern-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/turkish-president-erdogan-it-is-out-of-the-question-to-take-a-step-back-from-our-stance-on-hydrocarbon-resources-in-the-eastern-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish President Erdo\u011fan: &#8220;It is out of the question to take a step back from our stance on hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has stated that, \u201cThere will be no steps back from Turkey&#8217;s stance on hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his statements to reporters following the Turkey-EU Leaders&#8217; Summit in Varna, Bulgaria Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan noted that Turkey had been criticised some time ago in Brussels regarding hydrocarbon exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean, but emphasised that Turkey\u2019s approach would not change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Erdo\u011fan continued: &#8220;The Turkish Cypriots are equal owners of the island of Cyprus, and their rights cannot be ignored. We say that Turkish Cypriots have rights over the natural gas and oil to be explored in accordance with international law,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He stated that hydrocarbon resources found in the region should be shared equally between the Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnfortunately the Greek Cypriot side has different intentions. They keep on saying that they can invite which ever company they want to carry out exploration. We are telling them that this is not right and that the two sides should decide jointly on which international company will carry out the exploration. This is what international law dictates\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0President Erdo\u011fan also emphasised that the EU has not been impartial regarding the dispute over natural resources in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has stated that, \u201cThere will be no steps back from Turkey&#8217;s<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-141227","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\/141227","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=141227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}