{"id":315566,"date":"2019-10-10T13:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315566"},"modified":"2019-10-10T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:31:43","slug":"india-expresses-deep-concerns-over-unilateral-military-offensive-by-turkey-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-expresses-deep-concerns-over-unilateral-military-offensive-by-turkey-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"India expresses deep concerns over \u2018unilateral military offensive\u2019 by Turkey in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-309852 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar.jpg 670w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/>India on Thursday said it was deeply concerned over the unilateral military offensive by Turkey in northeastern Syria and asserted that the action can undermine stability in the region and the fight against terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a statement said,\u00a0&#8220;We are deeply concerned at the unilateral military offensive by Turkey in north-east Syria.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Turkey&#8217;s action also has the potential for causing humanitarian and civilian distress, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe call upon Turkey to exercise restraint and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria. We urge the peaceful settlement of all issues through dialogue and discussion,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Thursday said it was deeply concerned over the unilateral military offensive by Turkey in northeastern Syria and asserted that the action can undermine stability in the region and the fight against terrorism. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a statement said,\u00a0&#8220;We are deeply concerned at the unilateral military offensive by Turkey in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315567,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315566\/revisions\/315567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}