{"id":23094,"date":"2025-11-18T18:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=23094"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:12:29","slug":"zelensky-to-visit-turkey-for-prisoner-exchange-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=23094","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky to Visit Turkey for Prisoner Exchange Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to visit Turkey on Wednesday, following his trip to Spain. He announced his plans on Tuesday, emphasizing the urgency of finding a resolution to the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners,&#8221; Zelensky stated. He underscored that bringing an end to the war as quickly as possible remains Ukraine&#8217;s top priority.<\/p>\n<p>A key focus of the visit will be the resumption of prisoner of war exchanges with Russia. Kyiv is actively working towards restarting these critical operations to bring its soldiers home.<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch<\/em> understands that discussions will center around potential frameworks for prisoner swaps and de-escalation strategies.<\/p>\n<p>The visit to Turkey highlights Ankara&#8217;s continued role as a mediator in the conflict. Turkey has previously hosted talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials and has actively sought to facilitate a peaceful resolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This trip marks a significant step in Ukraine&#8217;s diplomatic efforts.<\/strong> Zelensky&#8217;s commitment to finding solutions and engaging with international partners demonstrates Kyiv&#8217;s determination to achieve a lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Further updates will be provided as this story develops.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=44\">More News articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to visit Turkey on Wednesday, following his trip to Spain. He announced his plans on Tuesday, emphasizing the urgency of finding a resolution to the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23096,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23094\/revisions\/23096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}