{"id":143579,"date":"2024-02-09T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/tore-it-is-a-shame-for-uefa-fifa-and-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:25:09","slug":"tore-it-is-a-shame-for-uefa-fifa-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/tore-it-is-a-shame-for-uefa-fifa-and-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00f6re: \u201cIt is a shame for UEFA, FIFA and the world\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of the TRNC Assembly Zorlu T\u00f6re said \u201cFIFA; UEFA, the Greek Cypriot Football Association and the world should be ashamed that Turkish Cypriot youth cannot participate in international sports events\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the written statement by the Assembly, T\u00f6re reacted against the statement by the Greek Cypriot Football Association President Yorgos Kumas saying \u201cWe can never allow the status of football in Cyprus to change and the Turkish Cypriot youth to open up to the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that Turkish Cypriot football was subjected to embargoes before UEFA and FIFA as a result of the pressure of the Greek Cypriot side, T\u00f6re added that the\u00a0inability of young people to connect with the world saddened them.<\/p>\n<p>Reminding that Turkish Cypriot football teams were members of the Cyprus Football Federation until 1955, Zorlu T\u00f6re stated that the Turkish Cypriot Football Association was established after the reactions of the terrorist EOKA group members.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker T\u00f6re stated that UEFA and FIFA support the Greek Cypriot side, which still maintains the mentality of the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00f6re noted that there is no justice in the world and in the European Union and that they have experienced this with embargoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of the TRNC Assembly Zorlu T\u00f6re said \u201cFIFA; UEFA, the Greek Cypriot Football Association<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143579","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\/143579","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}