Published September 28,2023
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Türkiye’s parliament speaker on Thursday lashed out at feedback of a Greek consultant who referred to as Türkiye and Azerbaijan “occupiers.”
“It is true that there is an occupation in Cyprus. But the occupier in Cyprus is not Türkiye, it is the Greek Cypriot side, which abolished the legal Republic of Cyprus established in 1960 and occupied it,” Numan Kurtulmuş mentioned in his deal with to the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Dublin.
His phrases got here as a reply to earlier speaker Annita Demetriou, the president of the House of Representatives of the Greek Cypriot administration of Southern Cyprus.
Regarding the Azerbaijan, Kurtulmuş mentioned Ankara understands Azerbaijan’s sensitivity in liberating its territories within the face of Armenia‘s 33-year occupation of Karabakh.
He added that this was not an “occupation” however “a people liberating their own land.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr