{"id":135842,"date":"2011-10-17T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=135842"},"modified":"2011-10-17T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:04:17","slug":"turkey-pm-erdogan-denied-obamas-claims-made-accusations-davutoglu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/17\/turkey-pm-erdogan-denied-obamas-claims-made-accusations-davutoglu.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey PM Erdo\u011fan Denied Obama&#8217;s Claims, Made Accusations: Davuto\u011flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan told US President Barack Obama that his government &#8220;acted as Israel&#8217;s lawyer,&#8221; Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu addressed deputies from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) during the party&#8217;s gathering in the hot springs retreat of K\u0131z\u0131lcahamam near the capital Ankara, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=us-acts-as-israels-lawyer-turkish-prime-minister-tells-obama-2011-10-17\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">the Hurriyet Daily News reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish foreign minister said Obama had phoned Erdo\u011fan 11 times during the last nine months and a brief encounter took place during one of their conversations, when Obama complained about Turkey&#8217;s role in Iran&#8217;s uranium swap deal, asking why Erdo\u011fan protected Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan denied Obama&#8217;s claims, Davuto\u011flu said, and responded, &#8220;I do not protect Iran, but you [the United States] act as Israel&#8217;s lawyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu also talked about Turkey&#8217;s stance over the unrest in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were going to side either with Bashar al-Assad or the Syrian people. We chose the Syrian people,&#8221; Davuto\u011flu said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan told US President Barack Obama that his government &#8220;acted as Israel&#8217;s lawyer&#8221;&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14267,24280,33538,10427,10297,665,10677,10426,10222,11036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}