{"id":25662,"date":"2018-12-15T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25662"},"modified":"2018-12-15T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T10:22:09","slug":"turkey-vows-to-keep-striking-pkk-targets-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25662","title":{"rendered":"Turkey vows to keep striking PKK targets in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50\">\n<p>\nSYDNEY: Australia now recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Saturday, but a contentious embassy shift from Tel Aviv will not occur until a peace settlement is achieved.<br \/>Morrison is also committed to recognizing a future state of Palestine with east Jerusalem as its capital when the city\u2019s status is determined in a peace deal.<br \/>\u201cAustralia now recognizes west Jerusalem \u2014 being the seat of the Knesset and many of the institutions of government \u2014 is the capital of Israel,\u201d Morrison said in a speech in Sydney on Saturday.<br \/>\u201cAnd we look forward to moving our embassy to west Jerusalem when practical, in support of and after final status of determination,\u201d he said, adding that work on a new site for the embassy was under way.<br \/>In the interim, Morrison said, Australia would establish a defense and trade office in the west of the holy city.<br \/>\u201cFurthermore, recognizing our commitment to a two-state solution, the Australian government is also resolved to acknowledge the aspirations of the Palestinian people for a future state with its capital in east Jerusalem,\u201d he added.<br \/>Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital.<br \/>Most foreign nations have avoided moving embassies there to prevent inflaming peace talks on the city\u2019s final status \u2014 until US President Trump unilaterally moved the US embassy there earlier this year.<br \/>Morrison first floated a shift in foreign policy in October, which angered Australia\u2019s immediate neighbor Indonesia \u2014 the world\u2019s most populous Muslim nation.<br \/>The issue has put a halt on years-long negotiations on a bilateral trade deal.<br \/>Canberra on Friday told its citizens traveling to Indonesia to \u201cexercise a high degree of caution,\u201d warning of protests in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and popular holiday hotspots, including Bali.<br \/>Morrison said it was in Australia\u2019s interests to support \u201cliberal democracy\u201d in the Middle East, and took aim at the United Nations he said was a place Israel is \u201cbullied.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australia now recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Saturday, but a contentious embassy shift from Tel Aviv will not occur until a peace settlement is achieved.Morrison is also committed to recognizing a future state of Palestine with east Jerusalem as its capital when the city\u2019s status is determined in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}