{"id":60610,"date":"2018-04-16T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60610"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:19:26","slug":"turkish-pm-urges-greece-to-avoid-escalating-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-pm-urges-greece-to-avoid-escalating-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish PM urges Greece to avoid escalating tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey\u2019s prime minister on Monday urged Greece to avoid escalating tensions in the wake of another flashpoint incident in the Aegean.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cOur coast guard teams did what was necessary and removed the flag,\u201d Binali Yildirim said, following reports that Greek youths late Sunday tried to plant a flag on an islet near Didim, southwestern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, <strong>Binali Yildirim<\/strong> said Sunday\u2019s incident was similar to events in February over the Kardak islets, in which a Turkish patrol boat rammed into a Greek Coast Guard patrol boat in the Aegean.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Turkish Coast Guard blocked Greece\u2019s defense minister from approaching Kardak to lay a wreath there.<\/p>\n<p>A decades-long dispute between Turkey and Greece over the uninhabited Aegean islets brought the two countries to the brink of an armed conflict in 1996.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s prime minister on Monday urged Greece to avoid escalating tensions in the wake of another flashpoint incident in the Aegean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,173],"tags":[17657,858,6745,77182],"class_list":["post-60610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-headlines","tag-binali-yildirim","tag-greece","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60610","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=60610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}