{"id":225001,"date":"2016-02-15T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=225001"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:45:00","slug":"us-calls-russia-turkey-avoid-escalation-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-calls-russia-turkey-avoid-escalation-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US calls on Russia, Turkey to avoid &#8216;escalation&#8217; over Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has called on Turkey and Russia to avoid any further escalation over the Syrian crisis after the two countries traded accusations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important that the Russians and Turks speak directly, and take measures to prevent escalation,&#8221; a State Department spokesperson told AFP on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been conducting airstrikes on Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria since September last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian bombing campaign has turned the tables in favor of the government of President Bashar al-Assad whom Turkey opposes.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the US and some European states have been sponsoring terrorists in Syria to oust Assad since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday accused Russia of acting like a &#8220;terrorist organization&#8221; in Syria, and vowed to deliver a robust response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/15\/450532\/US-Russia-Turkey\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has called on Turkey and Russia to avoid any further escalation over the Syrian crisis after the two countries traded accusations. &#8220;It is important that the Russians and Turks speak directly, and take measures to prevent escalation,&#8221; a State Department spokesperson told AFP on Monday. Russia has been conducting airstrikes on Daesh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}