{"id":667137,"date":"2026-01-01T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:07:16","slug":"turkiyes-fidan-meets-ukraines-umerov-in-ankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667137\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkiye&#8217;s Fidan meets Ukraine&#8217;s Umerov in Ankara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held talks with Rustem Umerov, Secretary of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defence Council, marking his first diplomatic engagement of the new year.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">According to a statement shared by T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Foreign Ministry, the meeting took place in Ankara on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">No details were disclosed, but the talks came at a moment of growing international optimism that renewed diplomatic momentum could help bring the nearly four-year-old Russia-Ukraine war closer to an end.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">T\u00fcrkiye, which maintains working relations with both Moscow and Kiev, has positioned itself as a key mediator since the conflict began, pushing for ceasefire efforts, prisoner exchanges, and negotiations aimed at ending the war.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-preview=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/2aed8862fdcd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"relative flex w-full px-4 py-3 flex-col items-start gap-6 rounded bg-[#F1F1F1] border-l-0 transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out box-border mb-4 hover:bg-[#F9F9F9] hover:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] focus:bg-[#F9F9F9] focus:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] before:content-[&quot;&quot;] before:absolute before:left-0 before:top-0 before:bottom-0 before:w-[3px] before:rounded-l-md before:bg-[#01ABD9]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flex justify-center items-center rounded-md !w-20 !h-20 aspect-square flex-shrink-0 sm:rounded md:rounded-md lg:!w-[84px] lg:!h-[84px] lg:rounded xl:rounded-md\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b5144d8da9591ea03617459f7c8c7a4636e2769ff7de37801fbff60839ddb33d.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related<strong class=\"text-[#1F2121] font-[var(--font-playfair),Georgia,serif] text-base font-extrabold leading-[26px] underline decoration-solid line-clamp-2 overflow-hidden text-ellipsis sm:text-lg sm:leading-[31px] md:text-lg md:leading-[28px] lg:text-xl lg:leading-[31px] xl:text-xl\">TRT World &#8211; T\u00fcrkiye to sustain peace, diplomacy efforts in 2026: Fidan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\"><strong>A diplomatic marathon for Fidan in 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held talks with Rustem Umerov, Secretary of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defence Council,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-667137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115820707495254453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}