Published January 21,2025
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Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Ersin Tatar on Monday met Nikos Christodoulides, chief of the island’s Greek Cypriot Administration.
The assembly was held on the residence of Colin Stewart, particular consultant and head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), within the Mediterranean island’s buffer zone.
Tatar and Christodoulides are stated to have mentioned many points, notably the border gates between the 2 international locations.
After the assembly, Tatar advised reporters that he instructed opening a border gate from Akıncılar in addition to the Haspolat gate.
He added that the Greek Cypriot facet pushed for transit passage for its residents via Kiracıköy and Erenköy, that’s, passage via TRNC territory.
The Greek Cypriot Administration discriminates in opposition to TRNC residents, refusing to present entry permits to these of Turkish origin who later turned TRNC residents, he stated, including that he raised this situation throughout his assembly with Christodoulides.
Noting that he advised Christodoulides that it’s unacceptable to discriminate in opposition to TRNC residents looking for to enter the Greek Cypriot facet, Tatar added that he and Christodoulides will meet once more earlier than Feb. 10.
After the assembly, the goodwill mission in Cyprus launched a joint assertion agreed on by the 2 leaders.
It stated their assembly was constructive and underlined that it’s important to extend contacts and belief between the 2 peoples and to advance financial relations.
After the assembly, Christodoulides stated that in their assembly, he introduced Tatar with an eight-point package deal of proposals on the crossing factors and different concepts that they mentioned at a dinner in New York.
Stating that the package deal in query ought to be accepted utterly, not piecemeal, Christodoulides argued that that is within the curiosity of all Cypriots, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.
DECADES-LONG CYPRUS PROBLEM
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 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 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 end result, 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 below the auspices of guarantor international locations Türkiye, Greece, and the UK.
The Greek Cypriot Administration entered the EU 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