{"id":141317,"date":"2018-06-28T13:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/celik-we-cannot-take-the-eus-biased-and-far-from-objective-stance-seriously\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T10:33:12","slug":"celik-we-cannot-take-the-eus-biased-and-far-from-objective-stance-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/celik-we-cannot-take-the-eus-biased-and-far-from-objective-stance-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c7elik: \u201cWe cannot take the EU\u2019s biased and far from objective stance seriously\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey\u2019s Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator \u00d6mer \u00c7elik spoke about the EU General Affairs Council Conclusions adopted the previous day, saying: \u201cWith this document, the EU has declared that it will not comply with the EU-Turkey Statement of 18 March. We cannot accept a selective relationship in which the EU sees Turkey as a key partner in areas such as migration, terrorism, transport, and energy, which are in the EU\u2019s own interests, but refuses to fulfil its commitments to Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement released via his Twitter account, the Minister for EU Affairs stated that Turkey cannot take seriously the biased stance taken by the EU on Turkey-Greece relations and the Cyprus issue, which is far from being objective and based on a \u201csolidarity between neighbours\u201d rather than on legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Criticizing the document, \u00c7elik emphasized that the conclusions had historical significance in that they demonstrate the extent of the confusion which clouds collective reason in the EU. Minister \u00c7elik said: \u201cThis document, which has no vision, bears no reflection on reality and is full of contradictions clearly shows how the EU is being held captive by an anti-Turkish mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator \u00d6mer \u00c7elik spoke about the EU General Affairs<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-141317","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\/141317","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=141317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}