Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged nations around the globe on Thursday to acknowledge the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) immediately.
“I’m reiterating the historic call I made to the entire world from the UN podium: Recognize the TRNC as soon as possible,” Erdoğan stated at an official ceremony marking Türkiye’s 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation, which laid the groundwork for the nation’s basis 9 years later.
“Our whole effort is to ensure that the peace we brought to Cyprus island in 1974 becomes permanent. We desire a just and sustainable solution,” he added through the occasion within the TRNC’s capital Lefkosa. Turkish Cypriots maintain yearly celebrations on July 20 as Peace and Freedom Day.
Erdoğan careworn that below the present situations, a long-pursued federal resolution on Cyprus was not attainable, ruling out negotiations till “the sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriots are recognized.”
Adding that the TRNC would stay a fortress for Türkiye and Turkic states within the Eastern Mediterranean, he affirmed that “no matter the circumstances, we will not back down from our efforts to confirm the equal sovereignty and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriots.”
CYPRUS ISSUE
Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, regardless of a sequence of diplomatic efforts by the UN to attain a complete settlement.
Ethnic assaults beginning within the early Nineteen Sixties pressured Turkish Cypriots to withdraw into enclaves for his or her security.
In 1974, a Greek Cypriot coup aimed toward Greece’s annexation of the island led to Türkiye’s navy intervention as a guarantor energy to guard Turkish Cypriots from persecution and violence. As a consequence, the TRNC was based in 1983.
It has seen an on-and-off peace course of lately, together with a failed 2017 initiative in Switzerland below the auspices of guarantor nations Türkiye, Greece, and the UK.
The Greek Cypriot administration entered the EU in 2004, the identical 12 months that Greek Cypriots thwarted a UN plan to finish the longstanding dispute.
Türkiye absolutely helps a two-state resolution on the island of Cyprus primarily based on sovereign equality and equal worldwide standing.
ERCAN AIRPORT
Erdoğan is at the moment on an official go to to the TRNC. Earlier, he attended the inauguration of an enlargement to Ercan Airport, which serves Lefkosa.
The days when Ercan Airport’s new terminal and runway shall be filled with worldwide flights “are not far away,” the Turkish president stated in his speech on the opening ceremony.
“The new terminal is six times larger than the previous one, meaning it is now capable of serving 10 million passengers,” he stated, noting that worldwide airport boasted a better annual passenger capability than another facility on Cyprus.
“This masterpiece will help turn the TRNC, a symbol of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean, into a brand (of its own) in the region,” he added.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
