{"id":6502,"date":"2025-05-07T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2025-05-07T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:04:25","slug":"erdogan-voices-support-for-pakistan-after-indian-missile-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6502","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan voices support for Pakistan after Indian missile strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone on Wednesday with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to convey his solidarity after India hit Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir with missiles, the Turkish presidency said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, which has strong ties with Turkey, shot down five Indian aircraft and vowed to retaliate further, in the worst clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours in more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>During the call, Erdogan told PM Shehbaz that Turkey supported what he called Pakistan\u2019s \u201ccalm and restrained policies\u201d in the crisis, his office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan also said he found \u201cappropriate\u201d Islamabad\u2019s call for an investigation into an attack that\u00a0killed 26 people in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) on April 22. Pakistan denies Indian accusations that it was linked to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErdogan stated that Turkey was ready to do what it can to prevent the tensions from escalating, and that his diplomatic contacts in that regard would continue,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has previously condemned India\u2019s attack and called on both sides to act with common sense. Turkey\u2019s Foreign Ministry said the latest military action by India created the risk of an \u201call-out war\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone on Wednesday with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to convey his solidarity after India hit Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir with missiles, the Turkish presidency said. Pakistan, which has strong ties with Turkey, shot down five Indian aircraft and vowed to retaliate further, in the worst clash between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}