{"id":26872,"date":"2018-12-25T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T09:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26872"},"modified":"2018-12-25T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T09:27:24","slug":"turkey-warns-france-no-benefit-in-retaining-troops-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26872","title":{"rendered":"Turkey warns France \u2018no benefit\u2019 in retaining troops in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1425556\/middle-east\" readability=\"38\">\n<p>\nANKARA: France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey\u2019s foreign minister said on Tuesday, after Paris announced it would maintain a presence despite Washington\u2019s pull-out announcement.<br \/>\u201cThere will be no benefit to anyone if France stays in Syria to protect\u201d the People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG) militia, Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by state news agency Anadolu. Ankara views the US-backed YPG as a \u201cterrorist offshoot\u201d of Kurdish insurgents inside Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey\u2019s foreign minister said on Tuesday, after Paris announced it would maintain a presence despite Washington\u2019s pull-out announcement.\u201cThere will be no benefit to anyone if France stays in Syria to protect\u201d the People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG) militia,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26872","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\/26872","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=26872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}