{"id":49357,"date":"2010-11-22T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/11\/22\/turkish-french-presidents-row-over-iran-at-nato-summit\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:32:00","slug":"turkish-french-presidents-row-over-iran-at-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/11\/22\/turkish-french-presidents-row-over-iran-at-nato-summit.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish, French Presidents Row over Iran at NATO Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fc<\/span>l and French President Nicolas Sarkozy had an angry exchange over Iran at this weekend\u2019s NATO summit in Lisbon, according to reports in the Turkish media.<\/p>\n

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Sarkozy had been insisting on naming Iran as the main source of a potential nuclear attack, something NATO decided not to do in the end and a prospect of much concern to Turkey.<\/p>\n

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\u201cForget including any country. The missile shield project should not target any country,\u201d G\u00fc<\/span>l told Sarkozy, according to the reports. The Turkish president told his French counterpart that the proposed missile shield over Europe was not designed to protect NATO allies from a single country but from any ballistic threat, daily Milliyet reported Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Turkey\u2019s argument that NATO should not name any country as a threat was supported by most of the members of the alliance, including the United States and Britain. France, which had been persistent on the matter during previous negotiations, abandoned its insistence on including Iran in the NATO document as a specific threat, Milliyet wrote.<\/p>\n

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Stressing Iran\u2019s importance for Turkey as a neighboring country, G\u00fc<\/span>l noted the migration wave from Iraq to Turkey created in the wake of the first Iraqi war.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAn economic problem also emerged. We don\u2019t want to face the same problem again,\u201d he said. \u201cThus we are trying all the diplomatic ways to solve this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t want to experience a second Iraq in our region,\u201d G\u00fc<\/span>l told Turkish journalists in Lisbon after the summit, reports H\u00fc<\/span>rriyet Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[10715,10714,10297,590,13793,10498,19007,19006,10791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49357"}],"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=49357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}