{"id":72161,"date":"2016-07-09T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bdb437df3f14fed6f1e4fdba846473af"},"modified":"2016-07-09T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T21:15:00","slug":"press-release-pm-meeting-with-president-erdogan-of-turkey-9-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72161","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM meeting with President Erdogan of Turkey: 9 July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing St spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister held a bilateral meeting with the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan earlier today in the margins of the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/events_132023.htm\">NATO summit in Warsaw.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister expressed his sincere condolences over the loss of life in the recent terrorist attack at Istanbul airport.<\/p>\n<p>They agreed that such attacks underlined the importance of close security co-operation, with the Prime Minister reaffirming his commitment to ensuring the strongest possible bilateral co-operation on counter-terrorism. They also agreed on the priority we must continue to give to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/daesh\/about\">efforts to defeat Daesh<\/a> and end the conflict in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>They agreed the bilateral relationship was already strong in many respects, including on trade, worth $16 billion annually to our economies, and on working to promote stability across the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They agreed that it would be important to continue to build the UK-Turkey bilateral relationship as the UK left the EU, when it would be more important than ever to try to ensure that the European Union remained outward-facing and as close as possible to its neighbours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM met with President Erdogan at the NATO Summit in Warsaw where they discussed co-operation on counter-terrorism and the UK-Turkey relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}