{"id":264088,"date":"2026-05-18T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=264088"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:22:47","slug":"fidan-says-ukraine-conflict-causing-serious-damage-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/264088\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidan says Ukraine conflict causing serious damage to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The war in Ukraine, which has been ongoing for around five years, is causing serious harm to Europe, but short-term ceasefires show the possibility of achieving lasting peace, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260518\/ukraina-2093180033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The conflict in the heart of Europe, now in its fifth year, is causing serious damage to the region and to the whole of Europe. Short-term ceasefires in Ukraine show the possibility of laying the groundwork for a durable truce, and Turkey will continue its mediation efforts,&rdquo; Fidan said, speaking at a press conference in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish minister also warned of the risks of excluding Ankara from Europe&rsquo;s defense architecture, saying it would contradict the &ldquo;security objectives set by the EU itself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Ukraine, which has been ongoing for around five years, is causing serious harm to Europe, but short-term ceasefires show the possibility of achieving lasting peace, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, according to RIA Novosti. &ldquo;The conflict in the heart of Europe, now in its fifth year, is causing serious damage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":263787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264089,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264088\/revisions\/264089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}