Turkish warships will go to a port within the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) as a part of the forty ninth anniversary of the latter’s 20 July Peace and Freedom Day.
Combatant components of the Turkish Naval Forces Command, together with TCG Gaziantep (F-490) and TCG Zıpkın (P-336), will go to Girne Port, the Security Forces Command of the TRNC stated in a press release.
The TCG Gaziantep (F-490) Frigate might be off the coast of the Girne Tourism Port and the TCG Zıpkın (P-336) Assault Boat might be opened to the general public in Girne Harbor at 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and a pair of p.m. to six p.m. native time on Thursday.
Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, regardless of a sequence of diplomatic efforts by the UN to attain a complete settlement.
Ethnic assaults beginning within the early Nineteen Sixties compelled Turkish Cypriots to withdraw into enclaves for his or her security.
In 1974, a Greek Cypriot coup aiming at Greece’s annexation led to Türkiye’s army intervention as a guarantor energy to guard Turkish Cypriots from persecution and violence.
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 underneath the auspices of guarantor nations Türkiye, Greece, and the UK.
The Greek Cypriot administration entered the European Union in 2004, the identical yr that Greek Cypriots thwarted a plan by then-UN chief Kofi Anan to finish the dispute.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
