Türkiye has “strongly” supported a press release by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Foreign Ministry on the anchoring of the U.S. destroyer USS Arleigh Burke at a Greek Cypriot port.
“As we have repeatedly emphasized together with the TRNC, the steps taken in the region by the U.S. which disrupt the balance at the expense of the Turkish Cypriot side damage that country’s long-standing neutral position as regards the Island and pose an obstacle to a just, sustainable and lasting settlement of the Cyprus issue,” Turkish Foreign Ministry mentioned Wednesday in a press release.
The ministry urged the U.S. to rethink these insurance policies.
The assertion reiterated Türkiye’s dedication, as a guarantor state on the island, to guard the reliable rights and pursuits of the Turkish Cypriots underneath all circumstances and situations.
DECADES-LONG DISPUTE
Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, regardless of a sequence of diplomatic efforts by the UN to realize 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 geared 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 in recent times, 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 Greek Cypriots thwarted a UN plan to finish the longstanding dispute.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
