{"id":60406,"date":"2018-03-24T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T08:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60406"},"modified":"2018-03-24T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T08:38:39","slug":"president-erdogan-macron-talk-about-afrin-over-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/president-erdogan-macron-talk-about-afrin-over-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"President Erdogan, Macron talk about Afrin over phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed Turkey&#8217;s ongoing operation in Afrin during a phone conversation with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.<\/h2>\n<p>Turkey on Jan. 20 launched <strong>Operation Olive Branch<\/strong> in Afrin, northwestern Syria to clear it from YPG\/PKK and Daesh terrorists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erdogan<\/strong> expressed his discomfort over baseless statements on the counter-terror operation, according to a presidential source.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Macron said the a 30-day UN cease-fire adopted on Syria also applied to Turkey&#8217;s operation in<strong> Afrin<\/strong>. The French leader had also warned Turkey against using the operation as an &#8220;excuse to invade Syria&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan said the operation aimed to eliminate terrorist threats and return peace for civilians in Afrin.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders also discussed bilateral and regional issues, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the Turkey-EU summit in Varna, Bulgaria on March 26, Erdogan said Turkey attached great importance to its relations with the EU and revival of the membership process.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Erdogan extended his condolence to <strong>Macron<\/strong> over a deadly hostage standoff at a supermarket in southern France, in which a gunman was killed by security forces.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed Turkey&#8217;s ongoing operation in Afrin during a phone conversation with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,14],"tags":[77586,77866],"class_list":["post-60406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-operation-olive-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60406","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=60406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}