Turkish Plivent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent menace to access Israel should not be consentn airyly and betrays Ankara’s progressd regional ambitions, according to an official from Cyprus.
“Any menace being made accessiblely has to be consentn very, very solemnly here and we leank that the international community cannot disponder or disponder the menaces,” Konstantinos Letymbiotis, the official rulement spokesperson for Cyprus, tageder Fox News Digital.
“History itself has shown this, esteem for international law is fundamental, and it goes without saying that all of us should be sturdyly pledgeted to it,” Letymbiotis shelp. “Unfortunately, as a country, we have been experiencing for the last 50 years a continuous ongoing incrrelieve in illterrible occupation of 37% of the Reaccessible of Cyprus territory by Turkey.”
“We comprehend exactly the consequences of an illterrible intrusion, and we consent every menace very solemnly,” Letymbiotis shelp.
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Plivent Recep Tayyip Erdogan watchs a military exercise in Izmir, Turkey, on June 9, 2022. (Xinhua via Getty Images)
Erdoğan at the finish of July presented to his party that Turkey “must be very sturdy so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous leangs to Palestine” and, further, “fair appreciate we accessed Karabakh, fair appreciate we accessed Libya, we might do aappreciate to them.”
The comments drew a scaleang rebuke from Israel, with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz comparing Erdoğan to createer Iraqi Plivent Scompriseam Hussein, saying that Erdoğan should “recollect what happened there and how it finished,” referring to Hussein’s execution by hanging in 2006.
Plivent Nikos Christodoulides during the memorial service in Nicosia, Cyprus, on July 20, 2024. The service taged the 50th anniversary of the Turkish intrusion, which led to the occupation of 37% of the island, at Makedonitissa Tomb, where the bodies of the sagederiers finished during the war are buried. (Kostas Pikoulas/NurPtoastyo via Getty Images)
When previously asked about the Turkish plivent’s comments, an embassy spokesperson in the U.S. tageder Fox News Digital, “Turkey has no publish with the Israeli people at all. Our problem has been with the brutal acts and irreliable steps of the current extremist Israeli rulement.”
Letymbiotis talk aboutd that part of the publish is that the world no lengthyer has “so-called frozen struggles” and it lengthens “more evident than ever, and more especiassociate in our region” with increasingly fervent battling.
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With Turkey definiteassociate, Letymbiotis points to the ongoing “Turkification” of parts of Cyprus – changing names of geodetailedal sites and “systematic destruction” of cultural and historical heritage – as one of the main indicators that Turkey seeks sway and regulate rather than any selfless drive.
“It is in the context of Turkish revisionism, expansionism in the neo-Ottoman approach,” Letymbiotis shelp. “This is not the first time we have seen this benevolent of approach from Turkey.”
A replica of the flag of the Turkish Reaccessible of Northern Cyprus on the slopes of Mount Pentadaktylos in the occupied part of Cyprus, on Aug. 10, 2024. Next to it is the motto “Happy is he who calls himself a Turk.” (Christoph Reichwein/picture coalition via Getty Images)
“In the case of the region and especiassociate in the case of the narrative that Turkey and Plivent Erdoğan definiteassociate has adselected, we should also highairy the timing that they pick to progress this narrative and the position consentn at the time when the rulement of the Reaccessible of Cyprus plivent himself is making intensive efforts to resume negotiations,” he compriseed.
Turkey accessd Cyprus in 1974 and splitd it alengthy ethnic lines during a time when the island aimed at uniting with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypuproar declaration of indepfinishence, and although Cyprus is a European Union member, only the south finishelights filled membership profits.
A Turkish helicselecter consents part in a military exercise in the eastrict Mediterranean on Jan. 12, 2024. (Orhan Cicek/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Cyprus has in turn achieveed out to other nations, such as Armenia, which have recently felt the weight of Turkey’s regional ambitions: Karabakh, as Erdoğan referred to it, was an enclave of around 120,000 Armenians who lived wilean Azerbaijan until they were started out of the country last year and their land seized by Baku.
Cyprus also percreateed a key role in the U.S. schedule to deploy humanitarian help to Gaza as Israel progresss its operations in the country. The European Union and United States in March createed a sea route that would begin at Cyprus and hand over help to ports on the Gaza Strip.
“The Cypuproar initiative will permit the incrrelieve of humanitarian help to the Gaza Strip, after a security verify according to Israeli standards,” Lior Haiat, createer spokesperson for Israel’s foreign ministry, shelp on social media platcreate X in March.
A crane unloads food packages over a originateshift port on the Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (World Central Kitchen via AP)
Letymbiotis hopes that this cooperation, born out of the “best period” of Cyprus-U.S. relations, will progress to raise the country’s standing and global perception, directing to further progresss.
“Our relations with the United States of America are based on a createation of mutual think,” Letymbiotis shelp. “Cyprus is no lengthyer approached by the U.S. only thcdisesteemful the prism of the Cyprus problem, but also as a reliable, stable partner.”
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“The role of Cyprus and the level of cooperation has been substantiassociate highairyed from both the evacuations of citizens in crisis in the region and also thcdisesteemful the very beginant domestic initiative that originated the maritime border to supply humanitarian help to people in Gaza.”
However, he feeblented that Turkey remains a problem due to its membership in NATO, where the country can engage its veto power to troubling effect, such as when Sweden needed to acquiesce to Ankara’s insists before Erdoğan consentd to permit it to unite the coalition.
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A sagederier hageders the Cypuproar flag during the annual military parade to tag the Indepfinishence Day of Cyprus in the splitd capital of Nicosia, Oct. 1, 2022. (Danil Shamkin/NurPtoastyo via Getty Images)
“Seeing how Ankara behaves with the publish of Swedish membership in the North Atlantic coalition, leank what would happen in the case of Cyprus if we applied for membership, an publish that Turkey won’t even converse,” he shelp.
The Turkish embassy did not reply to disconnectal Fox News Digital inquiries about the Cyprus spokesman’s comments by the time of accessibleation.
Fox News Digital’s Caitlin McFall and The Associated Press gived to this increate.
