{"id":369,"date":"2024-11-18T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/18\/cyprus-reacts-to-samaras-historic-meeting-part-of-cyprus-strategy\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:56:12","slug":"cyprus-reacts-to-samaras-historic-meeting-part-of-cyprus-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/18\/cyprus-reacts-to-samaras-historic-meeting-part-of-cyprus-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus reacts to Samaras: \u2018Historic meeting, part of Cyprus\u2019 strategy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1253840\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nikos-Christodoulides-320x200.jpg?v=1731952060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nikos-Christodoulides.jpg?v=1731952060\" alt=\"Cyprus reacts to Samaras: \u2018Historic meeting, part of Cyprus\u2019 strategy\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nikos-Christodoulides-960x600.jpg?v=1731952060\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>(AP\/Petros Karadjias)&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The comments made by former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras regarding \u201cfrivolities\u201d during the meeting between President Christodoulides and President Erdogan have sparked a response from the Director of the Cypriot president\u2019s office, Victor Papadopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Nikos Christodoulides did not engage in any frivolity with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but a discussion,\u201d emphasized the director during an interview with state broadcaster ERT on Monday. \u201cIf we want to achieve our goals we need to discuss with Turkey directly and this is what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Cyprus typically avoids commenting on Greece\u2019s internal politics, the remark was considered inappropriate and needed to be addressed.\u00a0The Cypriot side felt awkward and upset by Samaras\u2019 comment, which was perceived as ironic towards both the Cypriot President and the meeting, ERT reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meeting itself was historic, marking the first time since 1963 that a Turkish president had engaged with the Cypriot president, said Papadopoulos. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cypriot reaction also highlighted how the Greek-Turkish rapprochement helped the UN Secretary-General advance the Cyprus issue, as well as the government\u2019s success in reactivating the European factor and making the Cyprus issue a condition in Turkey\u2019s EU accession talks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1253840\/cyprus-reacts-to-samaras-historic-meeting-part-of-cyprus-strategy-to-achieve-its-goals\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP\/Petros Karadjias)&#13; The comments made by former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras regarding \u201cfrivolities\u201d during the meeting between President Christodoulides and President Erdogan have sparked a response from the Director of the Cypriot president\u2019s office, Victor Papadopoulos. \u201cPresident Nikos Christodoulides did not engage in any frivolity with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but a discussion,\u201d emphasized &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Cyprus reacts to Samaras: \u2018Historic meeting, part of Cyprus\u2019 strategy\u2019\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/18\/cyprus-reacts-to-samaras-historic-meeting-part-of-cyprus-strategy\/#more-369\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cyprus reacts to Samaras: \u2018Historic meeting, part of Cyprus\u2019 strategy\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nikos-Christodoulides-960x600.jpg?v=1731952060","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}