{"id":2110,"date":"2017-05-20T13:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2017-05-20T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:49:38","slug":"greek-ambassador-in-turkey-urges-eu-to-snub-turkish-navy-exercise-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/20\/greek-ambassador-in-turkey-urges-eu-to-snub-turkish-navy-exercise-closing-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"GREEK AMBASSADOR IN TURKEY URGES EU TO SNUB TURKISH NAVY EXERCISE CLOSING CEREMONY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/10\/TURKISH-SUBMARINES.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1240\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/10\/TURKISH-SUBMARINES-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/10\/TURKISH-SUBMARINES.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/10\/TURKISH-SUBMARINES-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/10\/TURKISH-SUBMARINES-560x372.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/10\/TURKISH-SUBMARINES-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/10\/TURKISH-SUBMARINES-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : EKathimerini<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to his European Union counterparts, Greece\u2019s ambassador to Turkey, Kyriakos Loukakis, has asked them to abstain from attending the closing ceremony of the Denizkurdu 2017 (Seawolf) naval exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish media published excerpts of the letter, dismissing it as Greek \u201cpropaganda\u201d to the Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>Kathimerini understands that Loukakis said the decision by Turkish authorities to extend invitations to European diplomats is \u201cunheard of\u201d due to the spate of Turkish violations of Greek air space and territorial waters \u2013 in particular the appearance of Turkish missile boats off the islet of Agathonisi during the exercise which, reports in Athens say, was intended as show of Turkish force in the Aegean.<\/p>\n<p>This was apparent a few days ago to residents on the eastern coast of Paros and Naxos\u2019s western shores, who were greeted by the sight of Turkish frigates moving slowly through the strait between the two central Aegean islands \u2013 within Greek territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/218562\/article\/ekathimerini\/news\/envoy-in-ankara-urges-eu-to-snub-seawolf-ceremony<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : EKathimerini In a letter to his European Union counterparts, Greece\u2019s ambassador to Turkey, Kyriakos Loukakis, has asked them to abstain from attending the closing ceremony of the Denizkurdu 2017 (Seawolf) naval exercise. Turkish media published excerpts of the letter, dismissing it as Greek \u201cpropaganda\u201d to the Europeans. Kathimerini understands that Loukakis said the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/20\/greek-ambassador-in-turkey-urges-eu-to-snub-turkish-navy-exercise-closing-ceremony\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GREEK AMBASSADOR IN TURKEY URGES EU TO SNUB TURKISH NAVY EXERCISE CLOSING CEREMONY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1515,409,10,1018,1516,1514,1513,90],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-aegean-islands","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-greek","tag-loukakis","tag-naxos","tag-paros","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}