{"id":3366,"date":"2018-04-18T23:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2018-04-18T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:05:49","slug":"ankara-says-imia-islets-is-turkish-territory-responding-to-eu-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/18\/ankara-says-imia-islets-is-turkish-territory-responding-to-eu-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ANKARA SAYS IMIA ISLETS IS TURKISH TERRITORY RESPONDING TO EU PROGRESS REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3367\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA-560x336.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA-260x156.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA-160x96.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/IMIA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Ekathimerini<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has attacked the European Commission\u2019s progress report, accusing the European Union of being \u201cunwilling to understand the difficulties\u201d the country is facing.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the country\u2019s Foreign Ministry said that \u201cthe Kardak Rocks and their territorial waters and airspace above them are exclusive under Turkish sovereignty,\u201d in reference to Greece\u2019s Imia islets.<\/p>\n<p>In the same statement, Ankara blames Nicosia for failed efforts to settle the longstanding Cyprus issue, while accusing the Greek Cypriot side for exploiting the country\u2019s membership of the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/227779\/article\/ekathimerini\/news\/imia-is-turkish-territory-ankara-says-in-statement-slamming-eu-progress-report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Ekathimerini Turkey has attacked the European Commission\u2019s progress report, accusing the European Union of being \u201cunwilling to understand the difficulties\u201d the country is facing. A statement issued by the country\u2019s Foreign Ministry said that \u201cthe Kardak Rocks and their territorial waters and airspace above them are exclusive under Turkish sovereignty,\u201d in reference to Greece\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/18\/ankara-says-imia-islets-is-turkish-territory-responding-to-eu-progress-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ANKARA SAYS IMIA ISLETS IS TURKISH TERRITORY RESPONDING TO EU PROGRESS REPORT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","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=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}