{"id":4180,"date":"2018-09-18T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2018-09-18T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:47:13","slug":"erdogan-says-turkey-to-increase-military-troops-in-north-of-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/18\/erdogan-says-turkey-to-increase-military-troops-in-north-of-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"ERDOGAN SAYS TURKEY TO INCREASE MILITARY TROOPS IN NORTH OF CYPRUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3417\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/ERDOGAN-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/232670\/article\/ekathimerini\/news\/erdogan-says-turkey-to-increase-troops-in-occupied-north-of-cyprus\"> Ekathimerini<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey is planning to increase its military presence but will not be opening a base in the occupied north of Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not decrease the number of our soldiers there but on the contrary, we will increase them,\u201d Erdogan told reporters on en route from Azerbaijan to Turkey, responding to media reports suggesting plans to establish a military base in the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, according to Turkey&#8217;s Hurriyet newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have a base problem\u201d in northern Cyprus, Erdogan reportedly said, noting that Turkey&#8217;s proximity to the divided island means that it does not have \u201ca problem reaching\u201d out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take only minutes to reach the Mediterranean. This does not apply to Greece. We do not need to establish a base there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Ekathimerini Turkey is planning to increase its military presence but will not be opening a base in the occupied north of Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. \u201cWe will not decrease the number of our soldiers there but on the contrary, we will increase them,\u201d Erdogan told reporters on en route&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/18\/erdogan-says-turkey-to-increase-military-troops-in-north-of-cyprus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ERDOGAN SAYS TURKEY TO INCREASE MILITARY TROOPS IN NORTH OF CYPRUS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","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=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}