The "isolation" will be lifted and the recognition of "tdvk", as he called the pseudo-state, will come, Turkey's new "ambassador" to the occupied territories, Metin Feizyoglu, claimed in his first interview since assuming his duties conducted to the Turkish state-run Anadolu News Agency and the T/C "news agency".
According to WFP, in the interview Feizioglu said that "it must be accepted that undoubtedly the isolation against Tdvk will now be broken, the isolation will be lifted and recognition will be implemented in time."
His dream is to bring electricity to the occupied territories via cables, after the water from Turkey, and he will make efforts for this, he continued.
Referring to the opening of the enclosed city of Famagusta and claiming that Varosha is under the sovereignty of the pseudo-state, Mr. Feizyoglu said that in this process the "real estate committee" will take steps taking into account the European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights and added that Turkey will provide the support it needs in this regard. "Cyprus is a national cause for us, not an issue," he said."
Noting that his family has ties with Cyprus since his grandfather, Turhan Feizyoglu was Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Cyprus Affairs, Feizyoglu said that he too sat at the table many times with his grandfather and Rauf Denktash and there he had the opportunity from a young age to listen to the talks of the grown-ups about Cyprus.
"And as president of the Bar Association we were thinking 'what can we do for Cyprus'. We wondered how to promote tdvk more internationally, how to break the isolation, how to end this inhumane human rights violation that is being applied to Turkish Cypriots, this violation that continues with the misrepresentation of Greek Cypriots," he said.
They set the goal of recognition
Recalling that during his presidency, the Turkish Bar Association organized five major international conferences from 2014 to 2021 and that the last two of them concerned the enclosed city of Varosha with the knowledge of the Turkish President, Mr. Fezioğlu said that during this period he had the opportunity to work directly with Tayyip Erdogan, Vice President Fuat Oktay and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and described Erdogan's speech at the UN General Assembly and his call for recognition of the pseudo-state as historic.
"This is a goal setting. It is the declaration of a state policy of no return by the UN General Assembly. 'Recognize tdvk,' he says. Turkey is not an ordinary state for saying this. It is a very powerful state in its region and in the world beyond its region," he said.
Referring to Turkey's role in the war in Ukraine and the fact that it is among the countries with the most diplomatic missions in Africa, Metin Feizyoglu said these have been echoed.
"Behold, look, the Vice President of Gambia, one of the African countries, has come. He met officially with Mr. Tatar. This is a very important step. Similarly, tdvk became an observer member under its name which is in the constitution in the Organization of Turkic States. As a state, not as a community, as a part. This means that in this way it is accepted in the Organization of Turkic States. All this was achieved through the tremendous political determination of our President of the Republic, through the tremendous diplomacy of our Foreign Minister. Now we must slowly expect some practices from the member states of the Organization of Turkic States that will break the isolation, that will overcome it," he said.
Turkey is at a point that could not be ignored by the players who want to make plans in this region, he added, arguing that "in connection with this, it must be accepted now that undoubtedly in this process the isolation against Tskhinvali will be broken, the isolation will be lifted and recognition will take place in time. That is where the process is heading."
Electricity from Turkey
According to the new Turkish "ambassador", Turkey and the pseudo-state are making preparations to lay a cable to bring electricity from Turkey to the occupied territories and it is the turn of this project to be implemented as it is on their agenda.
"For this reason I made my first visit to the Bank (Kyrenia) power station. I met with the officials of the electricity authority (KIB-TEK) there. I met with the chairman of the board, the general manager, the engineers. This issue is on my agenda every day," he said.
Claiming that another important investment is water, which they intend to provide to the Mesaria plain after the Morphou plain, and that they should discuss the transfer of water to Mesaria together with the "agricultural reform", something Turkey and the pseudo-state are working very closely on.
Properties of the EBKAF in Varosha
Referring to the issue of Varosha, Metin Feizioglu said that they will solve the issue of property rights according to the European System of Human Rights, but they will also study what happened to the properties of the EBKAF.
Reiterating the position that it is the "tdvk government" that opened Varosha and Turkey's duty is to provide the assistance and support needed in the context of the "national cause and fraternal law", Mr. Fezioğlu argued that the area called "closed Varosha" is under the sovereignty of the pseudo-state.
"Varosha is territory of the tdvk state. In that territory there are various property claims. There are claims in relation to who owns the land, the hotels, the buildings, the properties. In this context, the problem must be resolved by respecting the legislation concerning the Real Estate Commission (TRC), but most importantly, by remaining within the value system of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Human Rights. What the Council of Europe is looking at and could be looking at here, what the European Court of Human Rights is looking at and could be looking at is the restoration of the property right in a manner consistent with the convention and the additional protocol, the resolution of the problem in that way.
This, he said, is what the pseudo-state is trying to do, and Turkey is giving its full support to that effort. "Therefore, the property problem in Varosha will be resolved. It will be resolved within the framework of TMC legislation, within the framework of the Human Rights Convention. This process is not very old, it must be given some time. On the one hand plans are coming out, looking at who claimed rights to the property. What do they want, compensation, restitution, exchange? These are being studied. I repeat, there is only one and only one angle from which the CoE and the ECtHR could look at the issue: property rights. And we will solve the property right according to the European System of Human Rights," he continued.
All the claims of the Greek Cypriot side, he argued, are "unfair and unfounded".
Claiming that the pseudo-state meets all the requirements to become a "legal entity" accepted as a "state" according to the fundamental rules of the law of states, Metin Feizioglu said that "recognition is not a prerequisite for the existence of a state".
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