Türkiye continues its efforts to safe worldwide recognition for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Vice President Fuat Oktay stated on Saturday.
“There are two equal states on the island. There are two sovereign states and we want this to be recognized. We ask Türkiye’s friends to recognize this,” Oktay advised Anadolu throughout his go to to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
Oktay’s remarks got here forward of his assembly with TRNC President Ersin Tatar.
Following “intense” diplomatic efforts, Oktay stated the TRNC obtained observer standing within the Organization of Turkic States throughout final yr’s summit in Uzbekistan.
“In the last extraordinary summit held in Türkiye, the president (Tatar) also took his place as an observer at that table,” he added.
Türkiye is not going to enable the destruction of the Muslim Turkish minority on the island, Oktay harassed.
Ankara all the time reiterated that it backs a two-state resolution on the island based mostly on equal worldwide standing and sovereign equality.
CYPRUS ISSUE
The island has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, regardless of a collection of diplomatic efforts 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 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 in recent times, together with a failed 2017 initiative in Switzerland underneath the auspices of guarantor international locations Türkiye, Greece, and the UK.
The Greek Cypriot administration was admitted to the EU in 2004, the identical yr when Greek Cypriots thwarted a UN plan to finish the longstanding dispute.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
