{"id":59400,"date":"2017-09-28T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59400"},"modified":"2017-09-28T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:11:25","slug":"turkish-iraqi-pms-discuss-kurdish-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-iraqi-pms-discuss-kurdish-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish, Iraqi PMs discuss Kurdish referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey\u2019s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim spoke by phone with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi to discuss the recent illegitimate referendum on regional independence in northern Iraq, a prime ministry source said Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>The source said that the two leaders discussed the developments regarding the referendum in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) as well as bilateral relations between Iraq and Turkey, and regional issues.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 93 percent of those who voted in Monday\u2019s referendum in northern Iraq voted in favor of regional independence, according to preliminary results released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s controversial referendum had faced wide-spread opposition from most regional and international actors, many of whom had warned the poll would further destabilize the region and distract from the ongoing fight against Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Foreign Ministry re-issued on Wednesday a travel warning against Iraq\u2019s Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniyah provinces over potential security risks.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim spoke by phone with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi to discuss the recent illegitimate referendum on regional independence in northern Iraq, a prime ministry source said Wednesday. The source said that the two leaders discussed the developments regarding the referendum in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) as well as bilateral &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,101,174,194,188,14],"tags":[17657,77671,77675],"class_list":["post-59400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","category-world","tag-binali-yildirim","tag-kurdish-referendum","tag-kurdish-regional-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59400","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=59400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}