Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday reaffirmed his country’s support for a two-state solution in Cyprus, urging the international community to accept the Mediterranean island’s existing division.<\/p>\n
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when a Turkish invasion followed a coup in Nicosia backed by Greece’s then-military junta. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, declared in 1983, is recognised only by Ankara.<\/p>\n
“We fully support the vision based on a two-state solution,” Erdogan said during a visit to northern Cyprus marking 51 years since Turkish troops invaded the island.<\/p>\n
“It is time for the international community to make peace with the realities on the ground,” Erdogan said.<\/p>\n
The Turkish leader’s visit comes few days after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that meetings between Cyprus’s rival leaders at the organisation’s New York headquarters were “constructive,” even as questions remained about crossing points on the island.<\/p>\n
Erdogan on Sunday called for an end to the isolation of the TRNC.<\/p>\n
“Diplomatic, political, and economic relations should be established with the TRNC, and the injustice endured by Turkish Cypriots for decades must finally come to an end,” he said.<\/p>\n
The last major round of peace talks collapsed in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, in July 2017.<\/p>\n
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