{"id":141318,"date":"2018-06-29T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T08:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/prime-minister-erhurman-we-are-taking-decisive-steps-towards-opening-the-derinya-and-aplic-crossing-points\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T08:15:41","slug":"prime-minister-erhurman-we-are-taking-decisive-steps-towards-opening-the-derinya-and-aplic-crossing-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/prime-minister-erhurman-we-are-taking-decisive-steps-towards-opening-the-derinya-and-aplic-crossing-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Erh\u00fcrman: \u201cWe are taking decisive steps towards opening the Derinya and Apl\u0131\u00e7 crossing points\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During their weekly meeting held yesterday, President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Prime Minister Tufan Erh\u00fcrman discussed the Maronite community residing in the TRNC, as well as preparations towards opening the Derinya and Apl\u0131\u00e7 crossing points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his statement to the press following the meeting at the Presidential Palace, Prime Minister Tufan Erh\u00fcrman stated that one of the tenders for works at the crossing points had been completed and the other one will be finalised in mid- July. However, he added that it is not necessary to wait for the tenders to be completed before opening the crossing points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Erh\u00fcrman stated that he hopes the Greek Cypriot side will show the same determination and commitment towards the opening of the crossing points to enable the borders to be open by the end of the summer, as planned. Erh\u00fcrman said that the Turkish Cypriot side has clearly expressed their will to open the Derinya crossing point, and Erh\u00fcrman noted that works are continuing at the same pace for the Apl\u0131\u00e7 crossing point as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During their weekly meeting held yesterday, President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Prime Minister Tufan Erh\u00fcrman discussed 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-141318","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\/141318","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=141318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}