{"id":142348,"date":"2020-10-12T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/aksoy-turkey-will-continue-to-protect-its-own-rights-and-those-of-the-turkish-cypriots-in-the-aegean-and-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:59:05","slug":"aksoy-turkey-will-continue-to-protect-its-own-rights-and-those-of-the-turkish-cypriots-in-the-aegean-and-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/aksoy-turkey-will-continue-to-protect-its-own-rights-and-those-of-the-turkish-cypriots-in-the-aegean-and-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Aksoy: \u201cTurkey will continue to protect its own rights and those of the Turkish Cypriots in the Aegean and Mediterranean\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hami Aksoy criticised &#8220;unfounded&#8221; remarks made by the Foreign Minister of Greece. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The claims and remarks of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece Nikos Dendias in his interview with the newspaper Eleftheros Typos, which was published yesterday (11 October), are unfounded&#8221; Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exploratory talks were suspended in 2016 upon the request of Greece. Claiming that the talks were suspended on the account of Turkey is an attempt to mislead public opinion&#8221; Aksoy said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the same token, the claim that a single issue is discussed within the framework of exploratory talks does not reflect the reality. These talks are aimed at resolving all interrelated issues between the two countries\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the other hand, it is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus which opened the coastal area of Maras for public visits, not Turkey,&#8221; the statement read. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Greek-Greek Cypriot duo&#8217;s claim that identifies this step as a violation of UN Security Council resolutions and that people who enter the sea there threaten international security is ridiculous and far from being serious&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>According to Aksoy, the attempt by Greece to use the EU as a &#8220;trump card\u201d against Turkey instead of resolving its issues in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean through sincere dialogue with our country, is a futile endeavour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hami Aksoy criticised &#8220;unfounded&#8221; remarks made by the Foreign Minister of Greece.<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-142348","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\/142348","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=142348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}