{"id":10384,"date":"2024-01-06T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T14:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2024-01-06T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T14:25:23","slug":"blinken-erdogan-gaza-diplomacy-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/blinken-erdogan-gaza-diplomacy-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken, Erdogan Gaza Diplomacy Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece on Saturday at the start of a week-long trip aimed at calming tensions that have spiked across the Middle East since Israel\u2019s war with Hamas began in October.<br \/>\nThe Biden administration\u2019s most senior diplomat began in Istanbul, meeting Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a strong critic of Israel\u2019s military actions in Gaza, for talks.<br \/>\nBlinken and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had earlier discussed the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and Turkey\u2019s process to ratify Sweden\u2019s membership of NATO, Turkey\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement.<br \/>\nUS officials have been frustrated by the lengthy process, but are confident Ankara will soon approve Sweden\u2019s accession after it won the Turkish parliament\u2019s backing last month, said a senior State Department official traveling with Blinken, speaking on condition of anonymity.<br \/>\nUS lawmakers have held up the sale of F-16 fighter jets toTurkey until it signs off on the addition of Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<br \/>\nSweden, which along with Finland applied to join NATO following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, would become the alliance\u2019s 32nd member. Finland joined last year.<br \/>\nBlinken will later travel to the island of Crete to meet Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Fellow NATO member Greece is awaiting the approval by the US Congress of a sale of F-35 fighter jets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece on Saturday at the start of a week-long trip aimed at calming tensions that have spiked across the Middle East since Israel\u2019s war with Hamas began in October. The Biden administration\u2019s most senior diplomat began in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10386,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions\/10386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}