{"id":59439,"date":"2017-10-12T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59439"},"modified":"2017-10-12T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:15:16","slug":"turkey-calls-on-us-to-not-sacrifice-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-calls-on-us-to-not-sacrifice-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey calls on US to not &#8216;sacrifice&#8217; partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey&#8217;s president on Thursday said Ankara\u2019s \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d with Washington shouldn\u2019t end due to an \u201cimpertinent\u201d ambassador, laying the blame for the countries\u2019 row at the envoy\u2019s feet.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I am saying this clearly and vividly, it is the ambassador here that created this incident. It is unacceptable for the U.S. to sacrifice Turkey&#8217;s strategic partnership for an impertinent ambassador. It is impossible for us to say &#8216;yes&#8217; to this,&#8221; President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a gathering of provincial governors in the capital Ankara, referring to outgoing U.S. Ambassador John Bass.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan added: &#8220;What a shame if the great United States of America is being governed by an ambassador in Ankara. Because this is the position they are holding. They should have said, &#8216;You cannot treat my strategic ally this way, you cannot act this way.&#8217; But they couldn&#8217;t say this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy last week announced the suspension of non-immigration visas for Turkish nationals following the arrest of a Turkish employee at the U.S. Istanbul Consulate, prompting a tit-for-tat response from Ankara.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s president on Thursday said Ankara\u2019s \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d with Washington shouldn\u2019t end due to an \u201cimpertinent\u201d ambassador, laying the blame for the countries\u2019 row at the envoy\u2019s feet. &#8220;I am saying this clearly and vividly, it is the ambassador here that created this incident. It is unacceptable for the U.S. to sacrifice Turkey&#8217;s strategic partnership &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,101,174,194,188,14],"tags":[41323,260],"class_list":["post-59439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","category-world","tag-us-visa","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59439","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=59439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}