{"id":38610,"date":"2024-12-15T02:07:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38610"},"modified":"2024-12-15T02:07:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T23:07:17","slug":"turkish-diplomat-denies-erdogan-discussed-annexing-syrian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/turkish-diplomat-denies-erdogan-discussed-annexing-syrian-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Diplomat Denies Erdo\u011fan Discussed Annexing Syrian Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A Turkish diplomatic source stated on Saturday that President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan did not speak about annexing Syrian cities to Turkey, according to the German News Agency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The source told Russia&#8217;s Sputnik News Agency that &#8220;the president&#8217;s speech focused on the fact that Ankara cannot sever ties with residents of Syrian cities simply because these areas lie beyond Turkey\u2019s borders.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Earlier reports from various media outlets claimed that Erdo\u011fan had announced intentions to annex several Syrian cities and reconsider the borders established after World War II, as reported by Sputnik.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">During a speech at the 8th Congress of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey&#8217;s Sakarya province, Erdo\u011fan asserted that &#8220;the Syrian people have overthrown the oppressive Baath regime and will cleanse all other regions of terrorist organizations.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish diplomatic source stated on Saturday that President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan did not speak about annexing Syrian cities to Turkey, according to the German News Agency. The source told Russia&#8217;s Sputnik News Agency that &#8220;the president&#8217;s speech focused on the fact that Ankara cannot sever ties with residents of Syrian cities simply because these &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38610","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38611,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38610\/revisions\/38611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}