{"id":144233,"date":"2025-01-17T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=144233"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:28:51","slug":"turkish-foreign-ministry-condemns-us-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/turkish-foreign-ministry-condemns-us-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Foreign Ministry condemns US decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye issued a written statement regarding the US decision to sell arms to the Greek Cypriot Administration. The statement included the following:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe condemn the decision announced on 15 January by the USA, designating the Greek Cypriot Administration as an eligible country for arms sales and military training.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We share the views expressed in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on this issue.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We consider this decision, which will increase armament activities on the Island, a grave mistake. Given that our region is going through an extremely critical period, all relevant parties should refrain from provocative steps and act with common sense.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We expect the incoming U.S. administration, which will take office shortly, to reverse this misguided step taken by the outgoing President.<\/div>\n<div>As a Motherland and Guarantor State, T\u00fcrkiye will continue to support the TRNC&#8217;s efforts to enhance its defense and deterrence capabilities.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye issued a written statement regarding the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":144234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144233","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=144233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144236,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144233\/revisions\/144236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}