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The Cypriot presidency described the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Frusha resort in northern Cyprus … as a provocative and illegal affair.
The Cypriot presidency added that the Turkish measures undermine international efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem and expected the European Council to discuss this dossier in December and make decisions on the future of relations with Turkey.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said the visit “undermines the efforts of the UN Secretary General to call for an informal five-year dialogue” between Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Athens, Ankara and London, the island’s former colonial power. .
Anastasiades said in a statement that such movements “do not contribute to creating an appropriate and positive atmosphere for the resumption of talks in order to reach a solution” to the Cyprus problem.
Erdogan provocation
In turn, the Greek Foreign Ministry condemned Erdogan’s “provocation”. In a forceful statement, he said: “The planned visit of the Turkish president to occupied Warsaw, accompanied by government employees … an unprecedented provocation,” violates United Nations resolutions.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in northern Cyprus on Tuesday to condemn Erdogan’s visit, chanting slogans such as “Do not walk with the pain of others”, “No interference” and “The word in Cyprus is for the Cypriots.”
In a speech given by Erdogan during a provocative and controversial visit to the northern part of Cyprus occupied by Ankara, Erdogan said that talks on the divided island should be aimed at reaching an agreement on the basis of “two separate states.” “There are two separate peoples and countries in Cyprus, and the talks must take place on the basis of two separate countries,” he said.
Turkish search ship and Turkish army near Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean
Erdogan’s visit comes on the anniversary of the unilateral declaration of the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” on November 15, 1983, and only Ankara can endure it, while the hope that the habit of unifying the island will diminish with the arrival of the Tartars who support the two-state solution. .
According to the official Turkish (Anatolia) news agency, Erdogan’s visit comes amid a tense atmosphere on the island, and the Republic of Cyprus described it as an “unprecedented provocation”.
The Turkish president renewed his intention to “continue survey and investigation operations in the eastern Mediterranean until a fair agreement is reached.”
Erdogan said: “Stability on the island was achieved thanks to the military peace process that Turkey implemented in 1974 after the Romanian side intensified its massacres and attacks, but there are still political problems.”
He noted that the Turkish side “showed very strong will in this regard from the beginning, provided constructive ideas and made sincere efforts, but the solution could not be achieved with the efforts of one party.”
Erdogan stressed that “the European Union has not kept its promises regarding the situation on the island, has not provided administrative and economic support to northern Cyprus and continues to lie to this day.”
