{"id":3308,"date":"2018-04-11T22:41:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2018-04-11T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:41:03","slug":"erdogan-rebuffs-moscows-call-to-hand-afrin-to-syrian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/11\/erdogan-rebuffs-moscows-call-to-hand-afrin-to-syrian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"ERDOGAN REBUFFS MOSCOW\u2019S CALL TO HAND AFRIN TO SYRIAN GOVERNMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1973\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Al Monitor<\/p>\n<p>By Ayla Jean Yackley<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday rejected a call by Moscow to hand control of Afrin province to the Syrian government, saying Ankara would withdraw its forces when it felt the time was right.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at an April 9 news conference that Moscow expects Turkey to relinquish Afrin to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after having driven out the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG) in March. He asserted that Erdogan had \u201cnever said that Turkey wants to occupy Afrin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2018\/04\/turkey-erdogan-rebuff-call-turn-over-afrin-syria-government.html#ixzz5CPC50s9C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Al Monitor By Ayla Jean Yackley Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday rejected a call by Moscow to hand control of Afrin province to the Syrian government, saying Ankara would withdraw its forces when it felt the time was right. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at an April 9 news conference that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/11\/erdogan-rebuffs-moscows-call-to-hand-afrin-to-syrian-government\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ERDOGAN REBUFFS MOSCOW\u2019S CALL TO HAND AFRIN TO SYRIAN GOVERNMENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[608],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}