{"id":141755,"date":"2019-04-19T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T10:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/ozersay-we-will-continue-to-take-steps-without-hesitation-to-protect-the-rights-and-interests-of-the-turkish-cypriot-people\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T10:11:24","slug":"ozersay-we-will-continue-to-take-steps-without-hesitation-to-protect-the-rights-and-interests-of-the-turkish-cypriot-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ozersay-we-will-continue-to-take-steps-without-hesitation-to-protect-the-rights-and-interests-of-the-turkish-cypriot-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zersay: \u201cWe will continue to take steps without hesitation to protect the rights and interests of the Turkish Cypriot people\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the framework of his Ankara visit, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret \u00d6zersay met with the General Director of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation Melih Bilgin and evaluated natural gas exploration activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. \u00d6zersay made a statement regarding his meeting via his social media account and expressed \u201cWe will continue to take steps without hesitation to protect the rights and interests of the Turkish Cypriot people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore \u00d6zersay added \u201cWe evaluated the work of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation executed on behalf of the TRNC, the drilling activity programme and the analysis made for the work executed up to today. We are moving forward our studies in order to put into practice our rights which cannot be denied in the Eastern Mediterranean\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stating that they prefer to have cooperation with the Greek Cypriots on the issue of natural resources, \u00d6zersay said \u201cOur proposal for cooperation is still valid but if the Greek Cypriot side does not want to cooperate, we cannot wait and do nothing. We will continue to take steps without hesitation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the framework of his Ankara visit, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret<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-141755","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\/141755","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=141755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}