{"id":400293,"date":"2020-08-25T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400293"},"modified":"2020-08-25T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:58:59","slug":"germany-calls-for-dialogue-between-turkey-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/germany-calls-for-dialogue-between-turkey-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany calls for dialogue between Turkey, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin <strong>(SONNA<\/strong>)-The German foreign minister Tuesday called for direct dialogue between Turkey and Greece, ahead of his visit to the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Disputes surrounding the gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean can only be solved through dialogue and on the basis of international law, said Heiko Maas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tension is not just affecting the relationship between EU and Turkey. A further escalation can damage all sides,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Maas said the windows for dialogue should not be closed but further opened between Turkey and Greece. \u201cTo achieve this, we need steps toward easing of tensions and to initiate direct discussions instead of new provocations. We want to support this as much as we can,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Maas\u2019 visit to Ankara and Athens comes ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers later this week, in which the latest tensions in the eastern Mediterranean will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, Maas will head to Ankara to meet his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.<\/p>\n<p>@<strong>AA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin (SONNA)-The German foreign minister Tuesday called for direct dialogue between Turkey and Greece, ahead of his visit to the two countries. Disputes surrounding the gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean can only be solved through dialogue and on the basis of international law, said Heiko Maas. \u201cThe tension is not just affecting the relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400295,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400293\/revisions\/400295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}