{"id":153692,"date":"2026-08-27T13:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=153692"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:32:37","slug":"ustel-how-can-we-build-trust-with-such-an-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ustel-how-can-we-build-trust-with-such-an-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00dcstel: \u201cHow can we build trust with such an approach?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel has condemned the Greek Cypriot side\u2019s efforts to prevent the FC Barcelona Academy from organising a training camp in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), as well as its objections to the inclusion of three TRNC universities in the QS World University Rankings under the designation \u201cLefko\u015fa, Northern Cyprus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we build trust with a mindset that targets our children in sports and our universities in education?\u201d \u00dcstel asked, stressing that it would not be possible to reach an agreement with such an approach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Directorate of Press and Public Relations of the Prime Ministry, \u00dcstel said efforts had been made at the international level to prevent the Barcelona Academy from meeting with children and young people in the TRNC, while objections had also been raised to the international listing of Eastern Mediterranean University, Near East University and European University of Lefke under the designation \u201cLefko\u015fa, Northern Cyprus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00dcstel further noted that the far-right ELAM party in the Greek Cypriot side had called for the removal of TRNC universities from the rankings, arguing that \u201cthere is no such place as Northern Cyprus,\u201d. He said the party also called on the Greek Cypriot Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education to take action on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel has condemned the Greek Cypriot side\u2019s efforts to prevent the FC Barcelona<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":153570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153692","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\/153692","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=153692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153693,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153692\/revisions\/153693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}