{"id":60402,"date":"2018-03-23T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60402"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:00:13","slug":"turkey-opens-airspace-to-northern-iraqs-erbil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-opens-airspace-to-northern-iraqs-erbil\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey opens airspace to northern Iraq&#8217;s Erbil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced the lifting of a flight ban to northern Iraq&#8217;s Erbil city.<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to media in capital Ankara, Yildirim said: &#8220;We had closed down our airspace following northern Iraq&#8217;s referendum. We are opening our airspace as of today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An international flight ban had been imposed late last year in response to an illegitimate poll on regional independence carried out by the <strong>Erbil<\/strong> &#8211; based Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).<\/p>\n<p>Before the poll, most regional actors &#8212; including<strong> Turkey<\/strong> &#8212; had voiced opposition to the referendum, with many warning that it would further destabilize the already volatile region.<\/p>\n<p>Yildirim also said commercial flights would be available from either Turkey or Europe to Erbil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, this is only effective for Erbil. There will be no flights to Sulaymaniyah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced the lifting of a flight ban to northern Iraq&#8217;s Erbil city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,173,188],"tags":[17657,77669,77182],"class_list":["post-60402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-politics","tag-binali-yildirim","tag-erbil","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60402","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=60402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}