{"id":23883,"date":"2026-08-16T05:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=23883"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:11:33","slug":"erdogan-reopening-strait-of-hormuz-is-a-priority-for-turkiye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/08\/16\/erdogan-reopening-strait-of-hormuz-is-a-priority-for-turkiye\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan: Reopening Strait of Hormuz is a priority for T\u00fcrkiye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan says reopening the Strait of Hormuz is a \u201cpriority\u201d for Ankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, aired Saturday, August 15, Erdo\u011fan said the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would benefit no country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks come amid growing tensions between Iranian and U.S. officials over the status of the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory following what he described as Iran\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Iran\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the Strait of Hormuz \u201chas been, is and will remain Iranian,\u201d adding that it would be opened or closed only by Iran and could not become U.S. territory through social-media statements or the deployment of an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan says reopening the Strait of Hormuz is a \u201cpriority\u201d for Ankara. In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, aired Saturday, August 15, Erdo\u011fan said the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would benefit no country. His remarks come amid growing tensions between Iranian and U.S. officials over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23886,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883\/revisions\/23886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}