{"id":68677,"date":"2016-10-30T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68677"},"modified":"2016-10-30T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T13:50:22","slug":"us-orders-families-of-consulate-staff-to-leave-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68677","title":{"rendered":"US orders families of consulate staff to leave Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, the Turkish government has taken advantage of the Mosul attack in Iraq to attack Kurdish forces in Turkey. Now, the situation there is so volatile that the State Department has ordered families of their employees out of the country, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-orders-family-istanbul-consulate-staff-leave-210900280.html\">AFP<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The order was announced in the second travel warning that the State Department issued for Americans in Turkey in less than a week, reflecting US concerns about &#8220;increased threats from terrorist groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision to evacuate the families of staff was made &#8220;based on security information indicating extremist groups are continuing aggressive efforts to attack US citizens in areas of Istanbul where they reside or frequent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/29\/middleeast\/turkey-travel-warning-consulate\/\">CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, Turkey&#8217;s intrusion into the Syrian civil war has strained relations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey says it wants to help Syrian rebel forces fight ISIS, but Turkish warplanes have also bombed US-allied Kurdish fighters who are also fighting ISIS. Kurds are a large ethnic minority along the Turkish-Syrian border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With friends like these&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, the Turkish government has taken advantage of the Mosul attack in Iraq to &hellip; <a title=\"US orders families of consulate staff to leave Turkey\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68677\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US orders families of consulate staff to leave Turkey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}