{"id":57538,"date":"2015-09-29T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57538"},"modified":"2015-09-29T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:01:27","slug":"china-opens-new-consulate-izmir-57538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/china-opens-new-consulate-izmir-57538\/","title":{"rendered":"China opens new consulate in Izmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/China-opens-new-consulate-in-Izmir-610x343.jpg\" alt=\"China opens new consulate in Izmir\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/China-opens-new-consulate-in-Izmir-610x343.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/China-opens-new-consulate-in-Izmir-280x157.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/China-opens-new-consulate-in-Izmir.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Chinese officials hail economic and cultural relations with Turkey at inauguration of country&#8217;s second consulate in Izmir.<\/h1>\n<p>China opened its second consulate in Turkey on Tuesday, Izmir&#8217;s mayor saying that China saw the scenic seaport as a great city for investment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Chinese investors selected Izmir as &#8220;one of the best foreign cities to make investments&#8221;, Aziz Kocaoglu underlined.<\/p>\n<p>New Consul General Su Gaochao said that the opening showed that Turkey and China were &#8220;opening a new page&#8221;, calling the consulate the fruitful outcome of 44 years of Turkish-Chinese diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the inauguration ceremony also marked the 66th anniversary of the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara envoy Yu Hongyang told the crowd that the two countries share &#8220;big potential&#8221;, with &#8220;increasing trade, economic and cultural cooperation day-by-day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The consulate compliments China&#8217;s first in Istanbul, and its embassy in Ankara \/Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese officials hail economic and cultural relations with Turkey at inauguration of country&#8217;s second consulate in Izmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,117,172,174,194,173],"tags":[2381,75718],"class_list":["post-57538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-travel","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-china","tag-republic-of-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}