{"id":3138,"date":"2018-03-12T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T23:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2018-03-12T23:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T23:07:52","slug":"merkel-turkey-played-a-major-role-in-lack-of-cyprus-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/12\/merkel-turkey-played-a-major-role-in-lack-of-cyprus-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"MERKEL: TURKEY PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN LACK OF CYPRUS SOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3139\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/MERKEL.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Cyprus Mail<\/p>\n<p>By Elias Hazou<\/p>\n<p>German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said Turkey has played an important role in the failure to reach a negotiated settlement on Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very large problem when it comes to Cyprus. For years we\u2019ve been striving to find a solution but until today it has not been possible, and Turkey has played a major role,\u201d Merkel told a press conference in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks came ahead of a key EU-Turkey summit set for March 26 in Varna, Bulgaria \u2013 the current EU term president \u2013 bringing together EU leaders and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel was responding to a question put to her by the Cyprus News Agency regarding the recent standoff over hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>She was also asked about tensions between Greece and Turkey, after Turkish authorities detained two Greek soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/cyprus-mail.com\/2018\/03\/12\/mekel-turkey-played-major-role-lack-cyprus-solution\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Cyprus Mail By Elias Hazou German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said Turkey has played an important role in the failure to reach a negotiated settlement on Cyprus. \u201cWe have a very large problem when it comes to Cyprus. For years we\u2019ve been striving to find a solution but until today it has not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/12\/merkel-turkey-played-a-major-role-in-lack-of-cyprus-solution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MERKEL: TURKEY PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN LACK OF CYPRUS SOLUTION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,10,90],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-cyprus","tag-greece","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}