{"id":152970,"date":"2026-07-14T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=152970"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:40:55","slug":"statement-of-the-spokesperson-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-oncu-keceli-in-response-to-a-question-regarding-the-european-commissions-appointment-of-a-new-special-envoy-for-cyp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/statement-of-the-spokesperson-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-oncu-keceli-in-response-to-a-question-regarding-the-european-commissions-appointment-of-a-new-special-envoy-for-cyp\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, \u00d6nc\u00fc Ke\u00e7eli, in Response to a Question Regarding the European Commission\u2019s Appointment of a new \u201cSpecial Envoy for Cyprus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe consider the European Commission\u2019s decision to appoint a new \u201cSpecial Envoy for Cyprus\u201d to be an internal matter of the EU, as with similar appointments in the past.<\/p>\n<p>We remind yet again that the EU lost its impartiality on the Cyprus issue by admitting the Greek Cypriot side to EU membership in 2004 despite the latter&#8217;s rejection of the UN Comprehensive Settlement Plan.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, we observe that the entirely biased approach of EU institutions, most notably the European Parliament, toward the Cyprus issue has continued and lately intensified.<\/p>\n<p>We expect the official newly appointed by the European Commission to work toward changing the EU\u2019s partisan position and ensuring that the EU grasps the fact that a settlement of the Cyprus issue can only be achieved through negotiations between two states in sovereign equality, based on the realities on the Island.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe consider the European Commission\u2019s decision to appoint a new \u201cSpecial Envoy for Cyprus\u201d to be<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":152954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152970","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\/152970","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=152970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152971,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152970\/revisions\/152971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}