With the opening of Varosha, the occupied territories[/B] will have a new wave of tourism development, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has claimed. He also said that "great efforts are being made to survive and strengthen" the pseudo-state.
According to the Press and Information Office (PIO), the Turkish Cypriot daily Vatan reported that the Turkish Cypriot leader said that there was a further increase in investment especially in tourism, education, agriculture and various other sectors in the occupied territories, adding that there is "serious reconstruction" in all sectors.
For his part, "Foreign Minister" Tahsin Ertuğlu said the recent meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) "took many commendable decisions in relation to Cyprus".
According to WFP and Gouness, in a speech at the closing of the 48th OIS Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Islamabad, Ertuğlu claimed that since 1963 Turkish Cypriots have been deprived of their human rights and subjected to "unjust isolation" in all fields.
Ertuğlu expressed confidence that the OIS member countries will not only stick to the decisions they have taken in relation to the situation in Cyprus, but will turn these decisions into projects to remove the "isolation" of Turkish Cypriots.
Ertuğlu argued that there are two separate sovereign states on the island, neither of which has the right to represent the entire island.
Messages from the Sentop-Tore meeting
In Ankara, during their meeting, the President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Sentop and the "president" of the "parliament" Zorlu Torre sent messages on the Cyprus problem.
According to GMP, the illegal "Bayrak" reported that Mr. Sedop described the Cyprus problem as a "national issue" and pointed out that there is a "strong unity of opinion" between Turkish Cypriots and Turkey. "There is full Turkish support for the vision put forward by Ersin Tatar. It is not possible to start a new negotiation process without guaranteeing sovereign equality and equal international status," the Turkish Parliament Speaker claimed. Sedop also expressed support for the Turkish plan for Varosha, and asserted that "Turkey will not allow any violation of its rights and the rights of tdvk in the Eastern Mediterranean," referring to the pseudo-state.
For his part, Torre claimed that "the Turkish army is our security on the island. Right now there are de facto two states. One is the Republic of Cyprus which is under the occupation of the Greek Cypriots in the south and in the north there is tdvk," he said, referring to the pseudo-state. He also made the claim that "if there were no [TURKISH] guarantees, the Greek Cypriots and Greeks would do to us what Russia is doing to Ukraine today."
Source: CNA
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