As reported by the Press and Information Office, the T/C leader's statements were published in today's edition of the Kıbrıs Postası newspaper. The statements were made during Tatar's online speech at the Çankırı Karatekin Turkish University on the topic: "The past, present and future of the Cyprus problem."
Tatar argued, among other things, that there are two separate "peoples" in the Republic of Cyprus, that "the politics of the solution, which envisages the cooperation of two sovereign equal states that we stand for today, originates from here."
He said that "instead of a federal agreement, which involves the risks of returning to the pre-1974 period after the price and sacrifices made", they proposed the policy of "two separate sovereign equal states". He said they announced the new policy to the international community with the full support of Turkey.
Stressing the need to fight so that the whole world would accept "the existence of the TRNC", Tatar said that "all these injustices done to the Turkish Cypriot people were explained to the leaders and representatives of foreign missions and that the world saw and accepted that there are two separate peoples and two separate states in Cyprus. Here is a Turkish Republic that the world does not recognize but accepts," he said.
Noting "that despite the embargoes imposed on the Turkish Cypriot people, there are students from 144 different countries in the TRNC," Tatar said; "As we strengthen our own existence and develop our relations with the world in the commercial, economic and cultural sense, this recognition will come one day," he said.
Responding to a question about developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, Tatar said that "as a separate people, we govern ourselves and `tdvk' has the right to conclude agreements with the Republic of Turkey as to its structure, borders and maritime jurisdiction. Thus our existence and rights have been increased in the Blue Homeland."
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