{"id":169578,"date":"2025-02-22T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169578"},"modified":"2025-02-22T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T05:01:56","slug":"turkiye-presidents-kashmir-comments-irks-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/22\/turkiye-presidents-kashmir-comments-irks-india.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkiye President\u2019s Kashmir comments irks India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169579\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/download-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"171\" \/>New Delhi: India has reacted sharply to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s renewed support for Kashmiris, following his call for resolving the Kashmir dispute through UN-backed dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Erdogan, during his recent visit to Islamabad, reaffirmed Turkiye\u2019s solidarity with Pakistan on the Kashmir issue and called for UN dialogue to resolve the long-standing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Erdogan\u2019s comments, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) summoned the Turkish ambassador and lodged a formal protest. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, in a weekly briefing, dismissed Erdogan\u2019s statement, saying, \u201cWe reject such objectionable remarks on matters internal to India. We have conveyed a strong protest to the Turkish ambassador. Any unwarranted comment on India\u2019s territorial integrity and sovereignty is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jaiswal also reiterated India\u2019s claim that Jammu and Kashmir is an \u201cintegral part\u201d of the country, while attempting to deflect attention to Pakistan by labeling \u201ccross-border terrorism\u201d as the \u201cbiggest threat\u201d to the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).<\/p>\n<p>However, the reality remains that Kashmir is a disputed region, acknowledged as such by the United Nations and the international community. It is India, not Pakistan, that has consistently resorted to state-sponsored repression to crush the Kashmiris&#8217; legitimate struggle for their right to self-determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India has reacted sharply to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s renewed support for Kashmiris, following his call for resolving the Kashmir dispute through UN-backed dialogue. According to Kashmir Media Service, Erdogan, during his recent visit to Islamabad, reaffirmed Turkiye\u2019s solidarity with Pakistan on the Kashmir issue and called for UN dialogue to resolve &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-169578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/download-3-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169580,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169578\/revisions\/169580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}