Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday left the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) after attending the Peace and Freedom Day ceremonies.
Erdoğan and his accompanying delegation departed for Istanbul.
Turkish Cypriot President Ersin Tatar, TRNC’s Prime Minister Ünal Üstel and Türkiye’s Ambassador to Lefkosa Metin Feyzioğlu noticed Erdoğan off on the Ercan International Airport.
Earlier, the Turkish president arrived within the TRNC to attend occasions marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, referred to as Peace and Freedom Day.
The Turkish president was welcomed by Tatar at Ercan Airport within the capital Lefkosa. Following a welcoming ceremony, Erdoğan laid a wreath on the Ataturk Monument within the metropolis and signed the location’s particular ebook.
Erdoğan expressed Ankara’s readiness to barter, focus on, and in the end obtain an enduring peace and answer on the island. He stated the Greek Cypriot facet had a “spoiled mentality,” seeing itself as the only ruler of the island.
The island of Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, regardless of a sequence 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 navy intervention as a guarantor energy to guard Turkish Cypriots from persecution and violence. As a outcome, the TRNC was based in 1983.
The Greek Cypriot administration was admitted to the EU in 2004, the identical 12 months Greek Cypriots thwarted a UN plan to finish the longstanding dispute.
Source: www.anews.com.tr