The leader of the Turkish Cypriot community issued a written statement on the occasion of "Europe Day". In his statement, Ersin Tatar criticizes the EU, which he asks to focus on the "two-state solution."
"We regret that the European Union has departed from its basic principles, continues to act against these principles and continues its bias against Cyprus," he said. Tatar, stating that "the European Union's position (on Cyprus), which does not take into account the rights of the Turkish Cypriot people, is worrying as well as an obstacle to the efforts to settle the Cyprus problem."
"While the EU's promises (to the TCs) are not being fulfilled, the Turkish Cypriot people are being asked to become a minority of Greek Cypriots, and at the same time sanctions and embargoes (on the TCs) that violate human rights are still in place," he added.
As part of its "Europe Day" message, the "presidency" promotes the bizonal, bicommunal federation as a solution model that "aims to destroy the state and sovereign rights of the Turkish Cypriot people, making our people a minority, and includes the termination of Turkey's guarantor status and the removal of Turkish troops from Cyprus". It also claims that "as the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war shows, it is not possible to abandon our sovereign rights, our state, the guarantees of the Motherland of Turkey and the Turkish army."
Based on the above, Mr. Tatar's leadership further states that "our goal is to reach a just, lasting and viable agreement in Cyprus". This, it claims, "cannot be achieved through the federal solution, but through our proposal for a solution based on the existence of two sovereign equal states, which we first put on the negotiating table in Geneva". "We seek to establish cooperation based on the principle of mutual interdependence and the 'win-win' principle, especially on issues closely related to the realities of the island, such as energy and the daily life of the two peoples," he added.
In promoting the two-state solution, the T/C leadership asks the EU to reconsider its line on the Cyprus problem, to respect "the principle of the right to sovereignty", to accept the TCs as "a separate people in Cyprus" and to "fulfil the promises made to the Turkish Cypriot people during the referendum on the Annan plan."
Source: CNA
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