Published January 17,2025
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The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) launched an announcement Thursday condemning a call by the US to designate the Greek Cypriot Administration eligible for arms gross sales.
The declare by the US that this determination “was made to contribute to ‘world peace’ is tragicomic in the most diplomatic terms,” mentioned the TRNC’s Foreign Ministry.
US President Joe Biden issued a directive Wednesday permitting the Greek Cypriot Administration to buy army gear from the US.
“The furnishing of defense articles and defense services” to the Greek Cypriot Administration “will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace,” Biden mentioned within the government motion.
Saying the Greek Cypriot Administration is underneath the guise of being a “victim” and depicts itself as if underneath a safety menace concerning its armament actions, the TRNC’s Foreign Ministry famous that “it is the Greek Cypriot side that turned the island of Cyprus into a bloodbath between 1963 and 1974.”
“Although the atrocities committed by the Greek Cypriot side against the Turkish Cypriot people are tried to be covered up by the international community by calling them ‘intercommunal clashes,’ the sufferings still remain in the memory of the Turkish Cypriot people,” it added.
Türkiye’s army intervention in 1974 stopped the bloodshed on the island and is “the sole guarantee” of peace and tranquility within the area in the present day, the ministry underscored, including the Greek Cypriot declare that there’s a safety menace to itself is much from credible.
After the US determination, “it is clear that the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus will continue its arms race as if it were preparing for a war,” it mentioned.
Noting that the TRNC’s warnings concerning the risks of the Greek Cypriot Administration’s army cooperation, notably within the latest interval, on the island and within the area went unheeded, the ministry expressed the TRNC’s name “on the countries that have been giving a platform to the Greek Cypriot side’s warmongering to act in consideration of the consequences of their actions and to be prudent.”
Negatively affecting the fragile balances on the island and within the area will serve nobody’s pursuits, it highlighted.
“No one should have any doubt that we will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the security of the Turkish Cypriot people together with the Republic of Türkiye, the Motherland, by closely following these worrying developments,” the ministry added.
DECADES-LONG CYPRUS PROBLEM
Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots regardless of a collection of diplomatic efforts by the UN to realize a complete settlement.
Ethnic assaults beginning within the early Sixties compelled 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. 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 12 months that Greek Cypriots single-handedly blocked a UN plan to finish the longstanding dispute.
Source: www.anews.com.tr