{"id":147828,"date":"2025-08-07T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=147828"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:37:46","slug":"president-ersin-tatar-receives-british-mp-afzal-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-ersin-tatar-receives-british-mp-afzal-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ersin Tatar receives British MP Afzal Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span lang=\"TR\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #1d1d1d;\">President Ersin Tatar received Afzal Khan, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Rusholme, and the UK\u2019s Trade Envoy to T\u00fcrkiye<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span lang=\"TR\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #1d1d1d;\">During the meeting, President Ersin Tatar expressed his satisfaction with MP Afzal Khan&#8217;s visit to Northern Cyprus and extended his gratitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span lang=\"TR\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #1d1d1d;\">President Tatar informed Khan about his approach to resolving the Cyprus issue and emphasised the importance of the two-state solution vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span lang=\"TR\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #1d1d1d;\">Noting that a federal solution had been discussed many times in the past, but that the Greek Cypriot side, which has a numerical advantage, could assimilate Turkish Cypriots as a minority over time, Tatar said, \u2018That is why we insisted on equality. This is very important\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ersin Tatar received Afzal Khan, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Rusholme, and the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":147815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147828","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\/147828","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=147828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147829,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147828\/revisions\/147829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}