{"id":142198,"date":"2020-06-01T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/turkey-condemns-attack-on-mosque-in-greek-cyprus\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:09:17","slug":"turkey-condemns-attack-on-mosque-in-greek-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/turkey-condemns-attack-on-mosque-in-greek-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey condemns attack on mosque in Greek Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Firdevs Bulut<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>These attacks not only target Muslims, but pose common threat to all humanity, says Turkish Foreign Ministry<\/h4>\n<p>Turkey on Monday condemned an attempt to burn down a mosque in Greek Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We condemn the heinous attack on Koprulu Haci Ibrahim Aga Mosque in Greek Cyprus, Limassol province,&#8221; said Turkey&#8217;s Foreign Ministry in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Greek Cypriot administration should take the necessary steps in line with freedom of prayer and holiness of prayer sites, and they should catch the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is plain as day that anti-Muslim rhetoric and actions will not benefit efforts to solve the Cyprus issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such attacks not only target Muslims, but pose a common threat to all humanity, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Fuat Oktay, Turkey&#8217;s vice president, also denounced the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I condemn the attack on the historic Koprulu Mosque in Limassol province, Greek Cyprus. I invite Greek Cypriot authorities to take sincere action in face of these attacks, and catch the perpetrators as soon as possible. Turkey will always stand against violence,&#8221; he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday at least three petrol bombs were hurled at Koprulu Haci Ibrahim Aga Mosque, and anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments were spray-painted on its walls, according to the top religious authority in Northern Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE : ANADOLU AGENCY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Firdevs Bulut &nbsp; These attacks not only target Muslims, but pose common threat to all<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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyprus-in-world-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142198","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=142198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}